X.509 SSO Authentication

In this sample script, a Datajs custom HTTP client is used to encapsulate the client certificate component of certificate based SSO. You can provision signed certificate from a local file, a server, or from Afaria, based on the device platform, using the existing Certificate API.  You can choose to set the results of the API call as the password. 

/**
 * Sybase Hybrid App version 2.2
 * 
 * Datajs.Certificate.js
 * This file will not be regenerated, and it is expected that the user may want to
 * include customized code herein.
 *
 * The template used to create this file was compiled on Mon Aug 23 16:43:02 CST 2012
 * 
 * Copyright (c) 2012 Sybase Inc. All rights reserved.
 */

// Capture datajs' current http client object.
var oldClient = OData.defaultHttpClient;

var cert_username = "";
var cert_password = "";

// Creates new client object that will attempt to handle Certificate authentication.
var certClient = {
    request: function (request, success, error) {
    	
    if (request.requestUri.substr(0, 8) === "https://")
    {
        	if (request.password != undefined)
        	{
            // The following script gets the signed certificate data for the first
            // p12 file found on the sdcard
            var certStore = CertificateStore.getDefault();
            var certPaths = certStore.listAvailableCertificatesFromFileSystem("/sdcard/", "p12");
            var cert = certStore.getSignedCertificateFromFile(certPaths[0], request.password);

        	    var cert_username = cert.subjectCN;
        	    var cert_password = cert.signedCertificate;

	    // Redo the OData request for the protected resource
	    var newRequest = { 
		headers : request.headers,
		requestUri : request.requestUri,
		method : request.method,
		user : cert_username,
		password : cert_password
	    };

	    // Call back into the original http client.
	    return oldClient.request(newRequest, success, error);
        	}
    }
    	
    return oldClient.request(request, success, error);

    }
};

// Can either pass certClient explicitly, or set it globally for the page as the default:
OData.defaultHttpClient = certClient;

When sending a forwarded client certificate through an intermediary, set the value to “SSL_CLIENT_CERT” in the XHR’s HTTP request header, as shown in this example:

/**
 * Sybase Hybrid App version 2.2
 * 
 * Datajs.Certificate.js
 * This file will not be regenerated, and it is expected that the user may want to
 * include customized code herein.
 *
 * The template used to create this file was compiled on Mon Aug 23 16:43:02 CST 2012
 * 
 * Copyright (c) 2012 Sybase Inc. All rights reserved.
 */

// Capture datajs' current http client object.
var oldClient = OData.defaultHttpClient;

// Creates new client object that will attempt to handle Certificate authentication.
var certClient = {
    request: function (request, success, error) {
    	
    if (request.requestUri.substr(0, 8) === "https://")
    {
        	if (request.user != undefined && request.password != undefined)
        	{
        	     // The following script gets the signed certificate data for the first  
// p12 file found on the sdcard  
var certStore = CertificateStore.getDefault();  
var certPaths = certStore.listAvailableCertificatesFromFileSystem("/sdcard/","p12");  
var cert = certStore.getSignedCertificateFromFile(certPaths [0] , request.password); 

            // Append existing headers.
            var newHeaders = [];
            if (request.headers) {
                for (name in request.headers) {
                    newHeaders[name] = request.headers[name];
                }
            }
            // 
            newHeaders["SSL_CLIENT_CERT"] = cert.signedCertificate;

	    // Redo the OData request for the protected resource
	    var newRequest = { 
		headers : newHeaders,
		requestUri : request.requestUri,
		method : request.method,
		user : request.user,
		password : request.password
	    };

	    // Call back into the original http client.
	    return oldClient.request(newRequest, success, error);
        	}
    }
    	
    return oldClient.request(request, success, error);

    }
};

// Can either pass certClient explicitly, or set it globally for the page as the default:
OData.defaultHttpClient = certClient;