# Shield license version 1.6 (2020)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-license-version-1-6-2020/234991>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [May 29, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-license-version-1-6-2020/234991 "2020-05-29T22:15:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Luis\_Plazas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/luis_plazas/32/69408_2.png) [@Luis\_Plazas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Luis_Plazas)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-license-version-1-6-2020/234991/1 "2020-05-29T22:15:48Z")

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Hi,

For legacy support reasons, my team needs to deploy a 1.6.2 cluster and support SSL on it. I have contacted Elastic through [https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions) to see if I could get a license, but this version is so old that it seems they don't make licenses anymore.

Anyone else facing a similar problem? How could I go about using shield for SSL on such an old version? thanks!

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-license-version-1-6-2020/234991/2 "2020-05-29T22:41:11Z")

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You may need to roll your own solution with a nginx proxy, or similar.

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**Author:** ![Luis\_Plazas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/luis_plazas/32/69408_2.png) [@Luis\_Plazas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Luis_Plazas)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-license-version-1-6-2020/234991/3 "2020-05-29T23:09:08Z")

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Thank you for your reply @warkolm.

I am evaluating a similar path. Most of my code depends on the SearchResponse object that the TransportClient returns, so making the change to something like Jest will require a lot of work. Do you know of any way in which I can build a SearchResponse from Json?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-license-version-1-6-2020/234991/4 "2020-06-01T22:06:24Z")

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No idea sorry, that's not my area of knowledge.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-license-version-1-6-2020/234991/5 "2020-06-29T22:06:25Z")

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