How to enable HTTPS in GWT's Jetty? - gwt

Question

How can I enable HTTPS in Jetty, which comes with GWT?

Answer 1

There's a README-SSL.txt "hidden" in the gwt-dev.jar. You can find the latest version on Github.
In particular, add -server :ssl to the startup parameters of Jetty to use a default self-signed certificate for localhost.

Answer 2

Hi I think this can help some people there, I also use GWT and we were required to use HTTPS.
Basically we run gwt using maven, so the command is something like this to enable https.
gwt:debug -Dgwt.style=PRETTY -Dgwt.server=:ssl
And this is how my pom.xml section of the plugin looks like when running using jetty:run-war or jetty:run.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
<version>6.1.19</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>oracle-jdbc</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc</artifactId>
<version>14</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<configuration>
<webApp>${project.build.directory}/${warName}.war</webApp>
<connectors>
<connector implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.nio.SelectChannelConnector">
<port>8080</port>
<maxIdleTime>60000</maxIdleTime>
</connector>
<connector implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.security.SslSocketConnector">
<port>8443</port>
<maxIdleTime>60000</maxIdleTime>
<keystore>${project.build.directory}/jetty-ssl.keystore</keystore>
<password>jetty6</password>
<keyPassword>jetty6</keyPassword>
</connector>
</connectors>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>keytool-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>generate-resources</phase>
<id>clean</id>
<goals>
<goal>clean</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<phase>generate-resources</phase>
<id>genkey</id>
<goals>
<goal>genkey</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<keystore>${project.build.directory}/jetty-ssl.keystore</keystore>
<dname>cn=localhost</dname>
<keypass>jetty6</keypass>
<storepass>jetty6</storepass>
<alias>jetty6</alias>
<keyalg>RSA</keyalg>
</configuration>
</plugin>