Any public Webservices with SSL

[Shankar sanjay]

Hi All,

is there any public web services with https (SSL) , this is require mainly for testing purpose.

Regards,

Sankar.S

[Ulf Dittmer]

I assume you have a development server (or even local machine) to test your WS; why not set that up with SSL?

[Deepak Bala]

You didn't quite mention what type of web service it was. I'd go with Ulf's suggestion on using your own dev server and configuring SSL on it. Or you could use on of several public APIs which have a getVersion() call which do not need any authentication.

http://developer.ebay.com/DevZone/resolution-case-management/CallRef/getVersion.html

[Tim Holloway]

If you intend to develop a SSL-secured Web Service of your own, that's trivial. Just ensure that your WEB-INF/web.xml includes transport rules that mandate that the web services URLs are to be secured.

If you are working on a SLL-enabled web service client app, it's not that hard to create a minimal web service with secured transport (as described above). Something like a "hello, world!" service just to test the encryption. Unless you are using low-level Java networking classes, however, TLS/SSL, like cookies, will be automatically negotiated and handled by the java library.

One of the advantages of a simple "Hello, World!" service is that you can confirm that SSL is working by doing an HTTP GET request to it in a stock web browser and looking at the security indicators on the response.