On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, [iso-8859-1] Oliver Nolden wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I want to realize a secure database connection with jdbc and SSL
> between an applet and a postgres database 7.4. The driver
> pg74jdbc3.jar supports SSL, I created the server certificates with
> OpenSSL. The postgres server works fine with ssl. To establish a ssl
> connection with the client, you have to import the self-signed
> certificate to the client`s machine.
Java's ssl implementation requires authenticating the server I believe.
I think a better question to ask would be if there was any way to
programmatically supply the server's certificate instead of having to
import it into the cert. Unfortunately I don't know the answer to that
question.
Kris Jurka
