Re: SSL Problem

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Stefano Bonnin wrote:
> keytool -keystore /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2_04/jre/lib/security/cacerts -alias
> postgres -import -file server.crt.der
>
> What I did't undestand in this steps is the following:
>
> keytool -keystore ... etc ...
>
> import the certificate in the java keystore and the JDBC driver *must* find
> the certificate in the keystore and download it on the client, is't true? (I
> dont't know if this is true) BUT if my affermation is true HOW the JDBC
> driver (on the client) can find it in
> /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2_04/jre/lib/security?

The certificate must be available to the client.  There is no "find and
download" going on.  These instructions were likely written for the client
on the same machine as the server so it was not emphasized that the cert
needs to be available to the client JVM.

Kris Jurka