HOW TO turn on client Certificate with pop "choose a digital certificate" window

["Zhan, Jimmy" <jz...@casham.com>]

Hi,

 

   I have set up HTTPS for tomcat without client certificate, and it is
running good.  Now I want to turn on the client certificate.

 

   How can to config the tomcat, let pop a "Choose a digital
certificate" window, allow clients pick Choose a digital certificate,

 

   If failed , pop a new window to allow user input "User Name" and
"Password".

 

   In file servrer.xml ,  if change clientAuth="true", then when client
is not in the "truststoreFile",

 

                "The page cannot be display" comes out.

 

  If change clientAuth="want", then, tomcat ignores the result of
checking client certificate.

 

  Thanks in advance!!

 

 

Jimmy ZHAN

 

Cash America International 

 

  

 

 

Re: HOW TO turn on client Certificate with pop "choose a digital certificate" window

[Pulkit Singhal <pu...@gmail.com>]

For IE if you try to go to a https URL directly that requires Client Authn,
IE itself will pop u a winddow.

On 2/15/07, Zhan, Jimmy <jz...@casham.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
>    I have set up HTTPS for tomcat without client certificate, and it is
> running good.  Now I want to turn on the client certificate.
>
>
>
>    How can to config the tomcat, let pop a "Choose a digital
> certificate" window, allow clients pick Choose a digital certificate,
>
>
>
>    If failed , pop a new window to allow user input "User Name" and
> "Password".
>
>
>
>    In file servrer.xml ,  if change clientAuth="true", then when client
> is not in the "truststoreFile",
>
>
>
>                 "The page cannot be display" comes out.
>
>
>
>   If change clientAuth="want", then, tomcat ignores the result of
> checking client certificate.
>
>
>
>   Thanks in advance!!
>
>
>
>
>
> Jimmy ZHAN
>
>
>
> Cash America International
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Re: HOW TO turn on client Certificate with pop "choose a digital certificate" window

[Bill Barker <wb...@wilshire.com>]

I can see two ways to do this:
1) Tomcat-Specific:  Use clientAuth="want" on the Connector, and configure 
the webapp to use BASIC auth in web.xml.  You then add a Valve that looks 
for the cert, and authenticates the user based on the cert if possible.
2) Similar in that you still have clientAuth="want", but you have a Filter 
in your webapp that looks for the cert, and if it doesn't find it it returns 
a proper 401 response asking for Basic auth.  While this is portable across 
containers, it has the downside that it doesn't allow you to use 
container-managed security (e.g. <security-constraint>).

"Zhan, Jimmy" <jz...@casham.com> wrote in message 
news:26D0B22D0A22D445916A05D3E8E6B54E042D3C53@MAIL.casham.com...
Hi,



   I have set up HTTPS for tomcat without client certificate, and it is
running good.  Now I want to turn on the client certificate.



   How can to config the tomcat, let pop a "Choose a digital
certificate" window, allow clients pick Choose a digital certificate,



   If failed , pop a new window to allow user input "User Name" and
"Password".



   In file servrer.xml ,  if change clientAuth="true", then when client
is not in the "truststoreFile",



                "The page cannot be display" comes out.



  If change clientAuth="want", then, tomcat ignores the result of
checking client certificate.



  Thanks in advance!!





Jimmy ZHAN



Cash America International













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