you need a JSSL.jar which needs to be downloaded from www.java.sun.com, I havn't done this myself, its says in the build documentation, Other more capable tomcat configurators may know better Tony Ken wrote: > Do I need the source version of tomcat? > Or can I use the binary version 3.2b? > > Here is the error I am getting with tomcat 3.2b > > ./startup.sh > Guessing TOMCAT_HOME from tomcat.sh to ./.. > Setting TOMCAT_HOME to ./.. > Using classpath: > .:./../lib/ant.jar:./../lib/jasper.jar:./../lib/jaxp.jar:./../lib/jce1_2-do.jar:./../lib/jcert.jar:./../lib/jnet.jar:./../lib/jsse.jar:./../lib/mail.jar:./../lib/mysql_uncomp.jar:./../lib/parser.jar:./../lib/servlet.jar:./../lib/test:./../lib/webserver.jar:/usr/java/bin/../lib/tools.jar > 2000-08-14 02:05:42 - PoolTcpConnector: setAttribute: > socketFactory=org.apache.tomcat.net.SSLSocketFactory - > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tomcat.net.SSLSocketFactory