Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Getting Started:
Core Business Services

OpenEdge SSL architecture

Figure 7–1 shows the general support for SSL in OpenEdge.

Figure 7–1: SSL architecture in OpenEdge (See Figure 7–2 for key to diagram.)

Figure 7–2 provides the key to this architectural diagram.

Figure 7–2: Key to OpenEdge SSL architecture in Figure 7–1

In Figure 7–1, SSL clients start from the top and access SSL servers moving toward the bottom. From this figure, you can see where OpenEdge supports authenticated and encrypted connections from an initial SSL client connection through intervening middleware and servers all the way to data access using the OpenEdge RDBMS. All of the indicated connection pathways that join components to each other or to the Internet support SSL in one form or another.