Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact tomcat-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 13185 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2000 13:48:02 -0000 Received: from 216-175-135-51.client.dsl.net (HELO mail.followup.net) (root@216.175.135.51) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 31 Aug 2000 13:48:02 -0000 Received: from develop3 (216-175-135-50.client.dsl.net [216.175.135.50]) by mail.followup.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA22538 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:45:53 -0400 From: "Leonardo Junquera" To: Subject: RE: authentication via x509 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:47:10 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <39AE4930.DF8F8871@tissat.es> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N I usually use application level authentication over ssl. Put the login page behind ssl and check the user id and password against the database. -----Original Message----- From: Ismael Blesa Part [mailto:iblesa@tissat.es] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 8:02 AM Subject: authentication via x509 Hi, I have an application running with jsp, how should I do to authenticate the user with digital certificates ? How to access from jsp to the user digital certificate? How and where to specify that the application requieres a digital certificate? Where could I found information about j2ee users? Thanks