On 06/01/2016 06:22 PM, Stuart Douglas wrote:
Hi All,
I would like to propose that we add support for HTTP/2 out of the box in
Wildfly 10.1.
+1 from me.
At the moment there are two main barriers to getting HTTP/2 two
work:
- You need to set up a HTTPS connector, including generating keys etc.
For new users this is not as straightforward as it could be.
- You need to find the correct version of the Jetty ALPN jar and add it
to your boot class path. This is essentially a hack that modifies the
JDK SSL classes to allow them to support ALPN. A new version is needed
for every JDK8 release, so if you ever update the JVM HTTP/2 will stop
working (JDK9 has support for ALPN so this is not nessesary).
I am proposing that we do the following to address these issues:
- Add support for lazily generated self signed certificates, and include
this in the default config. This would mean that we would have a working
HTTPS connector in the default config, although the first request would
be a bit slow as it would need to generate a new self signed certificate
for localhost. This allows for SSL out of the box, without any impact on
startup time or any need for an installer to generate the certificate.
- I have dealt with the ALPN issue in Undertow using a reflection based
hack. I have created some code that parses and modifies the SSL
Server/Client hello messages to add/read APLN information, and I then
use reflection to update the HandshakeHash maintained by the engine so
the engines internal hash state used to generate the Finished frames
matches the data that was actually sent over the wire.
Nice. I think this is a pretty decent interim solution (though I think
we'll want to verify that this works on IBM too, and maybe come up with
a parallel code path for that case; also we'll want to be JDK 9
compatible ASAP so we should detect that too). Yeah it's kind of ugly,
but not so much when you compare it against the alternatives of using
the boot classpath for the Jetty kludge or writing our own JSSE.
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- DML