On your servlet side include following code:
X509Certificate[] certs = (X509Certificate [])
request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.request.X509Certificate");
X509Certificate clientCert = certs[0];
Client certificate that is sent from client side is always on index 0.
Best regards,
Kovi
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> Od: "J.W. Koelewijn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Datum: 2003/11/12 Sre PM 08:02:44 GMT+01:00
> Za: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Zadeva: SSL - Tomcat
>
> Hello,
>
> First of all I want to excuse if this question was raised before, but I'm
> new on the mailinglist.
> Now on to the question:
> I want to work with SSL on my tomcat, to protect the content sent to it and
> from it. By what I've read so far, I understand that SSL certificates are
> sent from the server to the client and the browser of the user will
> generate a popup giving the details of the certificate. My question now is,
> is it possible to just send and receive the certificate, and check in my
> servlet code whether the certificate is correct? So no confirmation of a
> user (which isn't there in my case, everything shold be automated) is needed?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> J.W. Koelewijn
>
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