Weblogic.security.X509 alternative in WLS 9.1

Question

Hi All
We have setup IIS 5.0 with 2 way SSL for client connection. We have also configured IIS weblogic proxy for Weblogic 9.1 using iisproxy.dll. The connection between IIS and WebLogic 9.1 is HTTP based. We are trying to get the client certificate in Weblogic 9.1 using the following code
java.security.cert.X509Certificate certs [];
certs = (java.security.cert.X509Certificate [])
request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.request.X509Certificate");
However the returned certificates are NULL.
We have also enabled Client Cert Proxy and Weblogic Plug-in in Weblogic 9.1 configuration.
We are trying to migrate from weblogic 8 to 9.1 and our previous code was as follows
weblogic.security.X509 [] certs = (weblogic.security.X509[])req.getAttribute("javax.net.ssl.peer_certificates");
This code work fine with the same IIS setup. Since weblogic.security.X509 is removed in WLS 9.1 we are forced to change our code.
Please help!
Message was edited by:
rmkandan

Answer 1

hi
Currently I am using
req.getHeader("WL-Proxy-Client-Cert")
to get the client certificate and then i do the following to get the X509 cert format
     if (pemCert != null && pemCert.length() > 0 ){
          pemCertBuff.append("-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----");
          pemCertBuff.append(pemCert);
          pemCertBuff.append("-----END CERTIFICATE-----");
     System.out.println("CertificateUtil:getFingerPrint: pemCertBuff --"+pemCertBuff.toString());
     X509Certificate certs = null;
     try {
          CertificateFactory cf = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509");
          ByteArrayInputStream bis = new ByteArrayInputStream(pemCertBuff.toString().getBytes());
          weblogic.security.PEMInputStream pemIs = new weblogic.security.PEMInputStream(bis);
          BufferedInputStream bufis = new BufferedInputStream(pemIs);
          certs = (X509Certificate)cf.generateCertificate(bufis);
     } catch (CertificateException e) {
          // TODO Auto-generated catch block
          e.printStackTrace();
     } catch (IOException e) {
          // TODO Auto-generated catch block
          e.printStackTrace();
And I am able to get the certificate, but I need to know is there any other elegant way to get the certificate as we did using weblogic.security.X509 class?
Please help!!
Message was edited by:
rmkandan