Manage https calls of CWS services

Matteo Marzuola

Hi all,

I have to handle https protocol to call CWS services hosted in Apache Tomacat server.

Are there samples in the community or best practices?

I develop the client in Java language.

Best Regards

Appu Nair

CWS just follows the aspects of the chaining certificates as governed by its protocols..I suspect you are talking about the SOAP interfaces of Content server code links like
HTTP(s):// server/servicesdirectory/authentication.svc?wsdl or the same war files hosted in Tomcat.What OT does for CWS is very simple they provide you a directory that starts with
If one were doing HTTPS in an IIS one would definitely try out the plumbing, meaning what I do is to write a java or .NET client source the WSDL's(proxies)
and write out a line that shows me my personal workspace or such like. This step allows me to check if I have to change the web. config for any server change, OT bundles the web. config files as localhost and 2099 which is where traditionally the lapi port is but some customers change it. Then with the original web. config one looks at these instructions carefully

<serviceBehaviors>

        <!-- To enable SSL meta-data retrieval, add httpsGetEnabled="true" and httpsGetUrl="" to the serviceMetadata element -->

        <behavior name="AdminServiceBehavior">

          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" httpGetUrl="" />

The biggest challenge for me as I am not a web administrator is to prime the IIS or TC for an HTTPS certificate.In this day and age, you will find self-signing certificates
The CA Store or where the certificates are stored is very important and the chaining of the certificates also is very important.(Sorry none of this you notice until something goes south)

I wrote this article about my travails in 2012 so use that to just get a feel of it what I would do is to convert your TC to https and see if you can get the WSDL to show up I think that is all that is there for it .I don't have a TC example in java.