Configuring Grizzly for HTTPS POST forwarding in Java Telegram bot

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Hey everyone! I’m working on a Telegram bot using Java and I’m stuck. I want to use Grizzly as my lightweight web server but I’m having trouble setting it up with SSL.

I’ve got Apache2 running on my Debian machine with a self-signed SSL cert. That part works fine. What I’m trying to do now is:

  1. Receive HTTPS POST requests with JSON data
  2. Forward these requests to Grizzly

I’m not sure how to configure everything to make this work. Has anyone done something similar? Any tips on how to set up Grizzly to handle the forwarded HTTPS requests?

I’d really appreciate any advice or examples. Thanks in advance!

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hey mandy, i’ve done smth similar. u need to set up a keystore with ur ssl cert and configure grizzly to use it. smth like:

SSLContextConfigurator sslContext = new SSLContextConfigurator();
sslContext.setKeyStoreFile(“path/to/keystore”);
sslContext.setKeyStorePass(“password”);

SSLEngineConfigurator sslEngineConfigurator = new SSLEngineConfigurator(sslContext);

hope this helps!

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I’ve implemented a similar setup for a project. Here’s what worked for me:

First, ensure your Grizzly server is configured to listen on the correct port for HTTPS. Then, you’ll need to set up a HttpServer instance with SSL:

HttpServer server = HttpServer.createSimpleServer(null, “0.0.0.0”, 8443);
SSLEngineConfigurator sslEngineConfigurator = new SSLEngineConfigurator(sslContextConfigurator)
.setClientMode(false)
.setNeedClientAuth(false);

NetworkListener listener = server.getListeners().iterator().next();
listener.setSecure(true);
listener.setSSLEngineConfig(sslEngineConfigurator);

Remember to handle the incoming POST requests appropriately in your server logic. You might want to use a JSON parsing library to process the incoming data efficiently.

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Hey Mandy, I’ve been down this road before with a similar project. Here’s what worked for me:

Make sure you’ve got your SSL certificate properly set up in a keystore file. Then, in your Java code, you’ll want to create a Grizzly HttpServer with SSL support. Something like this:

HttpServer server = HttpServer.createSimpleServer(null, “localhost”, 8443);
SSLContextConfigurator sslContext = new SSLContextConfigurator();
sslContext.setKeyStoreFile(“path/to/your/keystore.jks”);
sslContext.setKeyStorePass(“your_keystore_password”);
sslContext.setKeyPass(“your_key_password”);

NetworkListener listener = server.getListeners().iterator().next();
listener.setSecure(true);
listener.setSSLEngineConfig(new SSLEngineConfigurator(sslContext).setClientMode(false).setNeedClientAuth(false));

server.start();

This sets up Grizzly to listen on port 8443 for HTTPS requests. You’ll need to adjust the paths and passwords to match your setup. Don’t forget to add a handler for your POST requests to process the incoming JSON data. Good luck with your bot!