Connecting to service with HTTPS using several client certificate authentication

[Joao Luis Pinto <jp...@inescporto.pt>]

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Dear all

I am using Axis 1.1 with Tomcat 5.0.16 and Sun J2SE 1.4.

I am building a client application that connects to remote services
through SSL requiring client authentication, using several different
certificates stored in the same keystore file. The idea is to have the
service only allowing connections authenticated with the same
certificate of the enclosed XML digital signature, and to have the
application emulating several clients.

Before using Axis (and SOAP) I was using raw HTTPS and XML for the
connection, and changed the SocketFactory for each of the connecting
clients (running in the same application) creating a custom
SSLSocketFactory by implementing a KeyManager that returned a single
certificate, specific to the connections in question.

My question is: how do I set the SSLSocketFactory a particular SOAP call
uses with Axis? I cannot use the parameter method, since it interferes
with the whole application, right?

Any help is much appreciated...

Thank you

João Luis
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INESC Porto - Power Systems Unit - http://power.inescn.pt
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