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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Christopher Williams <cc...@ntlworld.com> on 2003/08/20 22:21:37 UTC

SSL-CLIENT authentication causes getUserPrincipal() to return null. Any idea why?

My setup:
JWSDP 1.2
Windows XP Pro
JDK 1.4.2

I want to know who's accessing a certain web page after they've
authenticated to Tomcat.  No problem if I use BASIC authentication.
However, when I use SSL-CLIENT authentication, calling getUserPrincipal() on
the incoming Request object returns null, which is no use at all.

Question: is this intended behaviour (it's pretty dumb if it is)?  If not,
how do I get information about the authenticated user?

TIA,

Chris Williams.