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Tika Server now has the ability to be spawned with SSL enabled by providing a keystore/Truststore as part of the configuration, this is likely to change but is available as part of Tika 2.4

Example:

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<properties>
  <server>
    <params>
      <port>9999</port>
      <forkedJvmArgs>
        <arg>-Xmx2g</arg>

...

      </forkedJvmArgs>

...

      <endpoints>
        <endpoint>rmeta</endpoint>
      </endpoints>
    </params>
    <tlsConfig>
      <params>
        <active>true</active>
        <keyStoreType>myType</keyStoreType>
        <keyStorePassword>pass</keyStorePassword>
        <keyStoreFile>/something/or/other</keyStoreFile>

...

        <trustStoreType>myType2</trustStoreType>
        <trustStorePassword>pass2</trustStorePassword>
        <trustStoreFile>/something/or/other2</trustStoreFile>

...

      </params>

...

    </tlsConfig>

...

  </server>

...

</properties>

Architecture

Tika Server is based on JSR 311 for a network serve. The server package uses the Apache CXF framework that provides an implementation of JAX-RS for Java.