[Mono-dev] mod_mono and SSL

[Sebastien Pouliot]

Hello Ivaylo,

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 22:44 +0300, Ivaylo Baylov wrote:
> In my porting efforts of an application that utilizes SSL certificates
> I've stuck on the HttpClientCertificate hollow implementation in
> mod-mono-server.

IIRC the HttpClientCertificate class itself is pretty much complete.
However it works if supplied with the basic information from the web
server. This was done for XSP a while back and most of it *can* be
shared with mod_mono.

> Thus I've tuned the mod-mono-server a bit to make it export server
> variables related to ssl session certificates and, accordingly, the
> application to use CERT_ server variables instead of
> HttpClientCertificate instances.

If the variables are exported (i.e. available to mod_mono) then it
should be really simple to "feed them" to HttpClientCertificate. You may
already have 99% if the solution in your hands (and I'd be happy to help
you complete it).

> Are there any official plans to work in this direction and/or implement
> the HttpClientCertificate for mod_mono?

There's rarely an official plan for such specific features (it's more on
a need-by-need basis) so it mostly comes from features/bug request or
from contributors patches (both comes with the big advantages of having
someone interested enough to test it in a real environment :-).
-- 
Sebastien Pouliot  <sebastien at ximian.com>
Blog: http://pages.infinit.net/ctech/