Hi Harsha, Thanks for the note. Sorry it took some time to reply back…I was ooto the last few days. To pick up the thread using https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Clients#Clients-HTTPREST. I assume I can configure the corporate https to redirect REST calls to Kafka HTTPS proxy. In this manner, just modify my current Kafka produce client to issue REST API calls instead writing to the socket direct. Am I getting this right? Thanks!!
Jamie From: Sriharsha Chintalapani [mailto:harsh...@fastmail.fm] Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 2:55 PM To: Jamie Wang; users@kafka.apache.org Subject: RE: Support https or ssl Jamie, Once the patch gets in you can configure kafka brokers with ssl configs and similarly you can configure producer and consumer with ssl both will negotiate a ssl connection once its established rest of the communication will happen over ssl. I am not sure about the timeline but we are working to get this asap. In my previous email I was talking about https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Clients#Clients-HTTPREST or <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Clients#Clients-HTTPREST> https://github.com/confluentinc/kafka-rest and front with them a http server that accepts ssl connections. Its bit of redirection but the end connections to kafka brokers won’t be ssl . If thats your use case I would suggest you to wait till these patches gets in. Thanks, Harsha On May 8, 2015 at 1:35:17 PM, Jamie Wang (jamie.w...@actuate.com<mailto:jamie.w...@actuate.com>) wrote: Thank you Harsha for the reply. Will the patch work with 0.8.2.1? So the general logic is that we write an agent that sends message via https and then may be a servlet using Kafka produce class to authenticate with kafka server on ssl port and so on.... When will the full implementation be available for GA? Thanks again. Jamie -----Original Message----- From: Sriharsha Chintalapani [mailto:ka...@harsha.io] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 7:22 PM To: Jamie Wang; users@kafka.apache.org<mailto:users@kafka.apache.org> Subject: Re: Support https or ssl Hi Jamie, I am currently working on providing ssl support for kafka. Here are the iras https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1690 and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1684 . If you are using REST api to front kafka producer than you can probably make that http server to be on ssl. -- Harsha On May 7, 2015 at 7:07:58 PM, Jamie Wang (jamie.w...@actuate.com<mailto:jamie.w...@actuate.com>) wrote: Hello, It's been a while since my team worked on kafka related project. Btw, previous project using Kafka worked wonderfully for us. Now I have requirement to use https or SSL. I am wondering if the latest version has support for SSL. If not, what is the timeline this functionality would supported and if there is any suggestion on what I can do in the interim to provide a similar functionality using Kakfa. Thank you in advance for your time and help. Jamie
