User Guide

XML configuration files 159

Description

Cookies are required when using load balancers to ensure that requests corresponding to one

network connection are always sent to the same server. Keep in mind that the cookie adds to

the HTTP header size and increases the bandwidth overhead.

SSL

Container tag.

Description

The tags in this section configure the incoming connections via the Secure Sockets Layer

protocol, known as SSL. The

SSL tags in Adaptor.xml configure Flash Media Server to act as

an SSL-enabled server to accept incoming SSL connections.

You need to acquire a digital certificate to use SSL. Once you get your SSL certificate through

a certificate authority such as Verisign, or by creating it yourself with a product such as

OpenSSL, you then use the SSL tags to configure Flash Media Server for SSL.

The following is a quick-start to allowing SSL-enabled connections to Flash Media Server.

■ Go to the SSL section of the Adaptor.xml file.

■ Specify the location of the certificate in the SSLCertificateFile tag.

■ Specify where to find the associated private key file in the SSLCertificateKeyFile tag.

■ If the private key file is encrypted, specify the passphrase to use for decrypting the private

key file in the

SSLPassPhrase tag.

■ Save the modified Adaptor.xml file.

Contained tags

SSLServerCtx container.

SSLCACertificateFile

This tag specifies the location of the certificate to return to clients who want to make a secure

connection to the server.

Description

If an absolute path is not specified, the certificate location is assumed to be relative to the

adaptor directory.