Monthly Archives: June 2009

a brief diatribe about Java’s SSL implementation

Posted by Julian Dunn on June 21, 2009
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Getting back to more tactical things, I’ve been hacking on some Java code recently for the first time in a long while. I’m trying to grab some data from a vendor’s SOAP interface for trending in Cacti, and having had problems with Perl’s SOAP::Lite library, I switched to using Apache Axis in Java. However, this post isn’t really about my web service client: it’s about how much SSL in Java stinks. Continue reading…