Configuring a BlackBerry MDS Connection Service to trust
web servers
You can configure the BlackBerry® MDS Connection Service to permit BlackBerry devices to pull application data and
updates from trusted or untrusted web servers. If you want to open trusted connections between web servers and
the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service, you must import the certificate for the web server into the JRE™ certificates
keystore file (JRE cacerts).
The BlackBerry MDS Connection Service supports LDAP, OCSP, and CRL to retrieve certificates and certificate status,
and HTTPS and SSL/TLS for connections that use trusted certificates.
Specify whether the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service requires trusted
HTTPS connections from web servers
1. In the BlackBerry® Administration Service, on the Servers and components menu, expand BlackBerry Solution
topology > BlackBerry Domain > Component view.
2. Click MDS Connection Service.
3. Click Edit component.
4. On the HTTPS tab, in the Name field, type the name of a web server.
5. In the Service URL field, type the regular expression for the web address of the web server. For example, type *
to represent all web servers, or type https://<domain>.com* to specify all web servers in a specific domain.
For more information about regular expressions in Java®, visit
java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/
regex/Pattern.html
and
java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/regex/literals.html
.
6. In the Settings section, in the Allow untrusted servers drop-down list, perform one of the following actions:
• To permit only trusted HTTPS connections from the web server, click No.
• To permit untrusted HTTPS connections from the web server, click Yes.
7. Click the Add icon.
8. Repeat steps 4 to 7 for each web server that you want to specify.
9. Click Save all.
After you finish: Restart the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service.
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Specify whether the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service requires trusted
TLS connections from web servers
1. In the BlackBerry® Administration Service, on the Servers and components menu, expand BlackBerry Solution
topology > BlackBerry Domain > Component view.
2. Click MDS Connection Service.
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