Accessing HTTPS via CFHTTP

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Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
HugeBob wrote:
> I'm trying to import the public key of a secure site (https) I want to get to
> via CFHTTP. But, I'm having a lot of difficulty getting this to work. Our CF8
> server is on a Unix box (SunOS 5.10). From my Windows XP workstation, I went
> to the site with IE and retrieved the public key in DER Binary Format and saved
> it to a *.cer file on the CF server (via Samba share). I then used the keytool
> to import it into the keystore at /{jrun_root}/jre/lib/security/cacerts. I
> verified that it was in there with the keytool -list -keystore cacerts
> command.

So far so good.


> I then went into the /{jrun_root}/servers/cfusion/SERVER-INF/jrun.xml
> file and uncommented the jrun.servlet.http.SSLService section and pointed the
> keyStore and trustStore attributes to the cacerts key store. I restarted CF
> and received a host of errors all saying:
>
> error No available certificate or key corresponds to the SSL cipher suites
> which are enabled.

And this is incorrect. You only need to do this if you are using the
buildin webserver and want to access that webserver directly from your
browser over HTTPS. (And in that case you would need the private key too.)


Undo the changes to jrun.xml, restart CF and try your cfhttp code.

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