Configure the SSL transport policy

When working with policy sets in the administrative console, we can customize policies to ensure message security by configuring the SSL transport policy.

The default policy sets provided with the product cannot be edited. To configure custom policy sets, first copy the default policy set or create a completely new policy set in order to specify the policies for it. See creating policy sets using the administrative console.

The SSL transport policy provides the SSL transport security for the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocol with web services applications. To view the default SSL transport policy set with the SSL transport policy, click...

Services > Policy sets > Application policy sets > WSHTTPS default > SSL transport

Tasks

1. To edit the SSL transport policy, click a policy set that we have created or customized from the default. Select the SSL transport policy applicable check boxes to enable the SSL functions. The following check boxes determine how SSL security is configured for this transport:
   • Enable for outbound service requests

     Displays whether the SSL security transport is enabled for outbound service requests.

   • Enable for outbound asynchronous service responses

     Displays whether the SSL security transport is enabled for outbound asynchronous service responses.

   • Enable for inbound service responses

     Displays whether the SSL security transport is enabled for inbound service responses.

2. To configure the binding for the SSL transport policy, click...
   Services > Policy sets > General client policy set bindings > binding_name > SSL transport or Services > Policy sets > General provider policy set bindings > binding_name > SSL transport

   Select the setting to configure the SSL bindings. The SSL transport window displays options for configuring the SSL security bindings.

   1. Select the setting to configure the SSL bindings for the Outbound service requests.
      • SSL settings

        The SSL security transport binding enabled for outbound service requests. The default is CellDefaultSSLSettings.

      • SSL properties file path

        The path of the SSL properties file enabled for asynchronous service responses. Enter the location of the SSL properties file to enable for asynchronous service responses.

   2. Select the setting to configure the SSL bindings for the Inbound service responses.
      • SSL settings

        The SSL security transport binding enabled for inbound service responses. The default is CellDefaultSSLSettings.

      • SSL properties file path

        The path of the SSL properties file enabled for inbound service responses. Enter the location of the SSL properties file to enable for inbound service responses.

   3. Select the setting to configure the SSL bindings for the Outbound asynchronous service responses.
      • SSL settings

        The SSL security transport binding enabled for asynchronous service responses. The default is CellDefaultSSLSettings.

      • SSL properties file path

        File path of the SSL properties file enabled for outbound service requests. Enter the location of the SSL properties file to enable for outbound service requests.

      Custom properties

      Click one of the following buttons to enable the action described:

      Button	Resulting Action
      New	Creates a new custom property entry. To add a custom property, enter the name and value.
      Delete	Removes the selected custom property.
      Edit	Enable you to edit a selected custom property. It is only displayed when one or more properties exist.

Once we have customized the SSL transport policy, the associated policy set uses this policy to protect message transmission. Similarly, we can also configure HTTP transport with the HTTP transport policy. Read about configuring the HTTP transport policy to learn how to configure the HTTP transport with the HTTP transport policy.

What to do next

Depending on how we are using policies, we might want to configure the HTTP transport policy or the SSL transport security bindings.

Subtopics

• SSL transport security policy settings
  Use this page to define the secure sockets layer (SSL) transport policy configuration for policy sets.
• SSL transport security settings
  Use this page to define the secure sockets layer (SSL) transport policy binding configuration.

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