SSL certificate information in servlets

This section describes how to include the client’s certificate information into Java servlets that are hosted by EAServer.

You can obtain SSL certificate information about the client as follows:

java.security.cert.X509Certificate peerX509;
ServletRequest request;

peerX509 = (java.security.cert.X509Certificate)
       request.getAttribute
       ("javax.servlet.request.X509Certificate");

Where request is the ServletRequest parameter passed in the doXXX()method.The ServletRequest technique is portable to other J2EE based application servers. See section 5.7 of the Java Servlet Specification version 2.2 for more information on these APIs.

You can also obtain the client’s SSL certificate information using the EAServer CtsSecurity APIs, as follows:

import CtsSecurity.*;

CtsSecurity.X509Certificate peerX509;

peerX509 = (CtsSecurity.X509Certificate)request.getAttribute( "com.sybase.jaguar.servlet.request.X509Certificate");