Hi Oleg, A little slow on the up-take, I am. Thanks for taking the time to respond. It is, alas, as I figured.
Looking forward to HttpComponents.... If only I had more time to contribute like I used to. -Eric. Oleg Kalnichevski wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 13:53 -0700, Eric Johnson wrote: > >> Perhaps I missed the documentation, but here's my problem: >> >> For our particular use of HttpClient (version 3.1), we'd like to be able >> to fetch the peer certificate chain for a particular request. >> >> The obvious place to start is to define our own protocol socket factory. >> >> Having done that, I can see perhaps caching the mapping of host to peer >> certificates in the protocol socket factory. Then, after any given >> request, my code can ask the protocol socket factory for the peer >> certificates for the domain I just connected to. This seems more >> complicated than it needs to be. I worry that this gets awkward, how do >> I maintain the correctness of the cache. >> >> I think it would make more sense to associate the certificate chain with >> the individual request. I just don't see an obvious way to do that. >> >> Any ideas how best to solve this? >> >> > > Hi Eric > > Unfortunately I have no good news for you. There is simply no elegant > way of solving this problem with HttpClient 3.x. Possible workarounds > differ in the degree of ugliness, but all are very ugly. > > HttpClient 4.0 API is significantly more flexible and powerful. It > provides a reasonably elegant way of solving the problem (as well as > many other inherent deficiencies of the 3.x API), but it is still an > early ALPHA and is not expected to stabilize any time soon. > > You'll have to pick a lesser of two evils depending on your particular > project circumstances and priorities. > > Oleg > > > >> -Eric. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
