Here’s why you shouldn’t use Apache Derby: its developers and maintainers follow some really borked ideals and don’t truly care about open-source software. Derby may or may not be a good database – I can’t really tell (and I don’t care either). What p*** me off is the developers’ disregard for the open-source community. Let […]
When you need to support self-signed SSL certificates in your Apache HttpClient based application you can use the contributed EasySSLProtocolSocketFactory as described in the HttpClient docs. Instead of using HttpClient’s HostConfiguration object directly you’d modify its protocol socket factory in your code like so: … if (config.isAllowSelfSignedCertificates()) { ProtocolSocketFactory factory = new EasySSLProtocolSocketFactory(); try { […]
Yet another software configuration issue that I wasted a few hours at today. Environment Apache 2.2.13 connect to Tomcat 5.5 with mod_jk (ajp13). Apache requires basic-auth for “/” i.e. for all URLs it serves. Just to be 100% precise, Tomcat runs as a WTP server “inside” Eclipse. However, the fact that it’s not a standalone […]