Hello All,



I know that there used to be (in tomcat 4) a way to replace the
SSLServerSocketFactory that got used to create the listener. I'm using
5.5 and want to put in a custom socket factory with a custom
TrustManager that uses external configuration to make client
authentication decisions. We're using tomcat embedded (writing code
around the org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded class) to try and setup
the server. I looked at the Catalina source code and found in
Http11BaseProtocol.java:



  private void checkSocketFactory() throws Exception {

    if (secure) {

       try {

          // The SSL setup code has been moved into

          // SSLImplementation since SocketFactory doesn't

          // provide a wide enough interface

          sslImplementation =


SSLImplementation.getInstance(sslImplementationName);

          socketFactory =
sslImplementation.getServerSocketFactory();

          ep.setServerSocketFactory(socketFactory);

       } catch (ClassNotFoundException e){

          throw e;

       }

    } else if (socketFactoryName != null) {

       try {

          socketFactory = string2SocketFactory(socketFactoryName);

          ep.setServerSocketFactory(socketFactory);

       } catch(Exception sfex) {

          throw sfex;

       }

    }

  }



Which leads me to believe that directly overriding the factory is no
longer doable (also noticing that the <Factory> element is gone from the
XML server configuration file. Does anyone know a way to provide a
custom SSL implementation in 5.5 without rebuilding / rewriting the
actual Catalina code?



TIA,



Alan