com.netscape.certsrv.connector

Interface IConnector

public interface IConnector

This interface represents a connector that forwards CMS requests to a remote authority. To register a connector, one can add the following to the CMS.cfg:

  Example for KRA type connector.
 ca.connector.KRA.enable=true
 ca.connector.KRA.host=thehost.netscape.com        #Remote host.
 ca.connector.KRA.port=1974                        #Remote host port.
 ca.connector.KRA.nickName="cert-kra"              #Nickname of connector for identity purposes.
 ca.connector.KRA.uri="/kra/connector"             #Uri of the KRA server.
 ca.connector.KRA.id="kra"
 ca.connector.KRA.minHttpConns=1                   #Min connection pool connections.
 ca.connector.KRA.maxHttpConns=10                  #Max connection pool connections.
 

Version:

$Revision$, $Date$

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	send(IRequest req) Sends the request to a remote authority.
HttpResponse	send(java.lang.String op, java.lang.String msg) Sends the request to a remote authority.
void	start() Starts this connector.
void	stop() Stop the connector.

Method Detail

send

boolean send(IRequest req)
      throws EBaseException

Sends the request to a remote authority.

Parameters:

req - Request to be forwarded to remote authority.

Returns:

true for success, otherwise false.

Throws:

EBaseException - Failure to send request to remote authority.

send

HttpResponse send(java.lang.String op,
                  java.lang.String msg)
           throws EBaseException

Sends the request to a remote authority.

Parameters:

op - operation to determine receiving servlet (multi-uri support)

msg - Request to be forwarded to remote authority.

Returns:

HttpResponse to be parsed by client

Throws:

EBaseException - Failure to send request to remote authority.

start

void start()

Starts this connector.

stop

void stop()

Stop the connector.