[wildfly-dev] HTTP/2 out of the box in Wildfly 10.1

[Stuart Douglas]

Hi All,

I would like to propose that we add support for HTTP/2 out of the box in
Wildfly 10.1.

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.

Yes I am aware that this is a massive hack, however I think it is
preferable to the current boot classpath hack, which has a lot of a
drawbacks. If this ever stops working at some point due to internal JDK
changes the boot classpath hack would still be usable, however I don't
think this is particularly likely, as the part of the JDK that this
modifies seems unlikely to change.

I think this would be a great usability feature, allowing developers to get
started with HTTPS and HTTP/2 straight away.

Thoughts?

Stuart
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