BTW: The attachment was probably discarded by the mailing list server, so I uploaded it to http://pastebin.com/gb1RnUYk ... the URL will hopefully survive :-)
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 00:47, Jakub Scholz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I played a bit with the support for SSL client authentication in the > C++ API for Windows. It seems that I got it working, at least against > our Red Hat MRG 2.0 (Qpid 0.10) brokers ... I did following changes: > 1) Added a support for SASL EXTERNAL mechanism > 2) Added new connection option ssl-cert-store which allows to select > the certificate store which should be used to search for the > certificate. If not specified, the default "Personal" store is used. > 3) Changed the SSL Connector to try to load the private key if > EXTERNAL mechanism has been selected > 4) The username for the SASL EXTERNAL mechanism is used from the > "username" connection option. The username is also used to find the > right certificate, since the username has to be in the subject of the > certificate. I was considering adding new option for this, but this > approach seemed to be the best. > > Currently, I'm aware of few limitations: > 1) when the SSL client authentication is enabled on the broker, the > client can connect only with EXTERNAL, not with PLAIN. But this > problem was there already before my changes ... I have some idea where > the problem is, but I'm not sure whether I will manage to fix it ... > 2) When there are multiple certificates with a matching subject, the > first one is always used. I didn't found any better method for > selecting the certificate ... > > Also, the current version is developed against 0.14 source codes, > because I had some problems getting the trunk to compile&work ... I > have to look at it ... > > The patch is attached. If someone wants to try it right now, feel free > to do so. Also if anyone has some comments, please share them. > Otherwise, I will try to reconcile the patch to trunk and will attach > the patch to some JIRA Issue ... either existing one or a new one - > I'm not sure whether there already is some open JIRA covering it. > > Regards > JAkub > > PS: I didn't looked into the .NET API yet. Does someone know whether > the .NET API needs to be somehow modified or are the modifications in > the C++ APIs automatically used by the .NET? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
