Message-Id: <199908301549.IAA14115@shorter.eng.sun.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 08:47:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff Nisewanger <Jeff.Nisewanger@eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: method: SSLContext.getInstance(java.lang.String protocol)
To: java-security@Sun.COM, nellrehn@midway.uchicago.edu
> Hello-
>
> Can you give me some examples of protocols for use with the method:
>
> SSLContext.getInstance(java.lang.String protocol)
>
> no examples are given in the docs, and I have no idea what is an
> acceptable protocol, or how its description should be formatted.
Sorry for any confusion. The EA1 release recognizes "SSL" or
"TLS" -- both names are equivalent. In the future, there could be
other protocols which are not interoperable but share the same
basic semantics and therefore can be implemented under the JSSE api.
Jeff