Hi All

Thanks for the note. May be I was not clear in my earlier mail.


I have client authentication using certificates. I want to skip client 
auth for certain hosted applications on the server but preserve client 
auth for other apps.

Regards & Thanks
================
Mahesh S Kudva


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Tomcat Users List <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:32:12 +0100
Subject: Re: Certificate Authentication for individual apps

> Mahesh S Kudva wrote:
> 
> > How can I have different certificate authentication for different
> applications and skip certificate 
> > authentication for some applications hosted on the same server.
> 
> I believe that, at least under SSL, certificates authenticate
> *servers* not applications, and that the Connector offers a
> certificate before it checks, or regardless of, the context
> path within that server.
> 
> So you need to deploy each app at a different (virtual) host,
> each with a different IP address.  We do this currently with
> 5.5.9.  You can use the default keystore for all hosts, and
> use the (undocumented) keyAlias="myalias" Connector attribute
> to offer the appropriate certificate for each host, e.g.
> 
>               <Connector
>                 address="288.104.197.211"
>                 port="8443"
>                 scheme="https"
>                 secure="true"
>                 sslProtocol="TLS"
>                 keyAlias="mrk2"
>               />
> 
> (in 5.5.9 you also need sslProtocol="TLS" explicitly)
> 
> Paul Singleton
> 
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