Configuring the SSL transport policy

When working with policy sets in the administrative console, you can customize policies to ensure message security by configuring the SSL transport policy.

Before you begin

You can configure some settings for default policies for custom policy sets. The default policy sets provided with the application server cannot be edited. To configure custom policy sets, you must first create a copy of the default policy set or create a completely new policy set in order to specify the policies for it.

About this task

You can customize the SSL transport with the SSL transport policy. The SSL transport policy provides the SSL transport security for the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocol with Web services applications.

Procedure

  1. Customize SSL transport policy configuration. From the administrative console, click Services > Policy Sets > Application Policy Sets > WSHTTPS default > SSL transport. The SSL transport window displays options for configuring the SSL settings for the transport policy.
    1. Click the check boxes to enable the SSL functions. The following check boxes determine how SSL security is configured for this transport:
      Enable for outbound service requests
      Displays whether the SSL security transport is enabled for outbound service requests.
      Enable for outbound asynchronous service responses
      Displays whether the SSL security transport is enabled for outbound asynchronous service responses.
      Enable for inbound service responses
      Displays whether the SSL security transport is enabled for inbound service responses.
  2. Customize the SSL transport default binding configuration. From the administrative console, click Services > Policy sets > Default policy set bindings > SSL transport. The SSL transport window displays options for configuring the SSL security bindings.
    1. Select the setting to configure the SSL bindings. The following menu boxes determine how SSL bindings are applied:
      Outbound service requests
      If outbound service requests were enabled on the SSL transport settings panel, this field displays the SSL security transport binding that is enabled for outbound service requests.
      SSL settings
      Specifies the SSL security transport binding that is enabled for outbound service requests. The default value for this field is CellDefaultSSLSettings.
      SSL properties file path
      Specifies the path of the SSL properties file that is enabled for asynchronous service responses. Enter the location of the SSL properties file to enable for asynchronous service responses.
      Outbound asynchronous service responses
      If outbound asynchronous service requests were enabled on the SSL transport settings panel, this field displays whether the SSL security transport binding is enabled for asynchronous service responses.
      SSL settings
      Specifies the SSL security transport binding that is enabled for asynchronous service responses. The default value for this field is CellDefaultSSLSettings.
      SSL properties file path
      Specifies the file path of the SSL properties file that is enabled for outbound service requests. Enter the location of the SSL properties file to enable for outbound service requests.
      Inbound service responses
      If inbound service responses were enabled on the SSL transport settings panel, this field displays the SSL security transport binding that is enabled for inbound service responses.
      SSL settings
      Specifies the SSL security transport binding that is enabled for inbound service responses. The default value for this field is CellDefaultSSLSettings.
      SSL properties file path
      Specifies the SSL security transport binding that is enabled for inbound service responses. Enter the location of the SSL properties file to enable for inbound service responses.

Results

Once you have customized the SSL transport policy, the associated policy set uses this policy to protect message transmission. Similarly, you can also configure HTTP transport with the HTTP transport policy. Read about configuring the HTTP transport policy to learn how to configure the HTTP transport with the HTTP transport policy.



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