How to enable HTTPS in GWT's Jetty?

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>