[DERBY-4795] Starting network server with -ssl turns SSL off

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 10.6.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 10.9.1.0
• Component/s: Network Server
• Labels: derby_backport_reject_10_8 derby_triage10_8
• Urgency: Normal
• Issue & fix info: Newcomer, Repro attached
• Assignee: Siddharth Srivastava
• Reporter: Knut Anders Hatlen
• Created: 09/Sep/10 12:40
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 23/Aug/11 17:15

Description

If you start the network server with the -ssl option and no <sslmode> argument, the server will be started in plain text mode.

For example:

java -jar derbynet.jar start -ssl

If -ssl is specified without <sslmode>, I would have expected that SSL was enabled (not sure which SSL mode, basic or peerAuthentication, is more appropriate) or that the command failed because of the missing argument. Treating "-ssl" as an alias for "-ssl off" sounds unintuitive to me.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: DERBY-5091 Derby Test and Fix 2011 GSoC Project
• is related to: DERBY-5261 NetworkServerControl prints usage message twice on some errors