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4.2. Communication between the System Applications | 4.2.5. Preparing Tomcat for HTTPS Connection

HTTPS is a variant of HTTP which enables encrypted data transmission between server and client. It is therefore recommended, that you create the servlet container client (WebDAV, CAE) connection via HTTPS. This chapter describes how you create a key and how you configure Tomcat to use this key. If you want a more detailed description, please visit the Tomcat documentation at http://tomcat.apache.org.