Alexander_Bussh
Dec 16, 2008Nimbostratus
Get Client Cert in SSL Session
Hi
I hope some can help me. I have some simple questions. I don’t have access to a F5 at the moment to try it.
With the following function I can get the client certificate from the SSL session, right?
SSL::cert - Returns X509 SSL certificate data.
Can I add the data into an http header? What kind of format has this data?
Is it possible to get the client certificate data when ever I want it? I mean is the Client Certificate available over the whole SSL Session, or is it only available at SSL session start?
I need this information for the application developer.
What I wanna do is …
I have an SSL session to the F5. The F5 makes SSL offloading. The client authenticates itself via Client Certificate.
For some reason we have to switch to another Web service. The Web services needs the User Certificate to know the user identity. I want to insert this certificate in a HTTP Header.
Cheers
Alexander