Settings

By default, non-encrypted REST / HTTP is used for interaction with the web server. In this case you can easily monitor HTTP-traffic flowing between WCS and the web server.

WCS Manager WCS Core listens HTTP on the port 90918081, and HTTPS on the port 88888444 by default.

Settings of the manager module of WCS related to HTTPS are listed in wcs-managerin flashphoner.properties:

Incoming HTTPS

Profiles

Incoming HTTPS requests are used only for 'sendData' callbacks. See more in the Web Call Server - Call Flow documentation.

These requests go from the web server to WCS, and WCS takes the role of an HTTPS server here.

To switch between HTTP and HTTPS modes the following profiles are used:

• dev
• production

These profiles can be specified in the WCS Manager settings, in the wcs-manager.properties file.

Examole:

spring.profiles.active = dev

Even if the production profile is on, HTTPS can be turned off using the manager.enable_https=false setting. In this case the HTTPS port will not be listened by the WCS server.

Certificates

By default, Web Call Server uses the same keystore for REST / HTTPS certificates as it uses for Websockets - wss.jks, specified in the manager.keystore parameter.
Managing this keystore is thoroughly described in the Websocket SSL section.

Outgoing HTTPS

When querying the web backend server, the WCS server inspects the URL of the request and initates an HTTPS query if that URL starts with https. For example, https://localhost/ConnectionStatusEvent. To query the web server that uses a self-signed certificate, use the this setting:

rest_template.allow_self_signed=true

...

If this parameter is set to false queries will not pass through, and you will need to configure your web server to work with actual SSL certificates issued by the certification center. To do this, please refer to the documentation of your web server.