SOAP, SSL and Certificates

[Irfan Mohammed <Ir...@iis.com>]

This question may not be specific to SOAP but I am hoping somebody may know
the answer to this. Is there anyway to gain access to a client certificate
in a web service method (on the server) after the client and server are
mutually authenticated. Basically the client sends an ID as a parameter to
the service.  This id is used to an identifier for various house keeping
operations.  However the client may send an invalid ID. However bu gaining
access to the certificate and hence the public key of the client the client
can be uniquely identified.  The question is whether this is possible in a
web service method.

Thanks
Irfan