move to akka http

[bblfish]

This required https and https session renegotiation.

[bblfish]

The first thing to test is if WebID authentication can be implemented in that akka branch. That requires one to see if one can get the client certificate from normal code.

Is Play now based on this version of akka-http? That would allow mean one could test if one can get hold of the certificate inside of Play.

[antonkulaga]

Play team claims to use akka-http as an alternative experimental backend in play 2.4.x
But do we really need play at all? In my opinion play is too heavy and contains a lot of stuff that we do not really need. I also do not like play routers, I think akka-http ones are better and more flexible

[bblfish]

Wether Play is needed or not is another issue I suppose. Still if they do have the latest akka http version, then one could in one go switch the current implementation over and see what problems are, and then do a slow migration. There may be advantages with Play that we will only realise when moving completely to akka. So in any case it is worth knowing how they fit together. ( One advantage of Play until recenlty is that I coud do WebID-TLS authentication, which I could not do with akka )