clientAuth problems

[Phil Spencer <ph...@csfs.com>]

I'm having difficulty with client authorisation.
Actually I suppose thse are two separate problems.

Problem 1
=========
With tomcat 3.x (various versions) I can enable SSL
without clientAuth and everything works fine. However
when I enable clientAuth the web browser (Netscape
Navigator 4.07) says I have no client certificate.
which not true - see problem 2)

Problem 2
=========
In one of many attempts to find a solution to problem 1,
I installed Tomcat 4. I was pleasantly surprised when
I simply edited the server.xml file, started it, and it
worked with clientAuth immediately. I checked I can run
the examples and create a simple servlets myself and all
is fine so far. The problem is that I need to create a
servlet as a subclass of a framework class which is in
turn a a subclass of HttpServlet. When I try this, I get
the exception shown below.

I've tried just about everthing I can think of but I seem
to have reached a dead-end. A solution or suggestion for
a way forward with either of these problems would be most
appeciated

TIA

Phil

javax.servlet.ServletException: Class com.csfs.spencer.phil.GetRemoteUser is not a Servlet
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.CertificatesValve.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)
----- Root Cause -----
java.lang.ClassCastException: com.csfs.spencer.phil.GetRemoteUser
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.CertificatesValve.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)

Re: clientAuth problems

["Craig R. McClanahan" <cr...@apache.org>]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Phil  Spencer wrote:

>
> javax.servlet.ServletException: Class com.csfs.spencer.phil.GetRemoteUser
>   is not a Servlet

99% of the time this is caused by having a "servlet.jar" or "j2ee.jar"
file in your Java system extensions directory ($JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext).
This messes up Tomcat execution.

Craig McClanahan