[Mono-list] Accessing secure site: x509 + basic authentication

[Sebastien Pouliot]

Hi Oliver,

Some comments below. Please fill a bug report into bugzilla.ximian.com.

> I'm attempting to access a secured site using Mono, the site uses
> certification (https) and basic authentication.

Are you using client-side certificates ? or only server-side ?
If you're using client-side (like your code seems to) then why do you need a
username/password ?

> When running my code I'm given the result:
>
> Error getting response stream: ReceiveFailure

You probably get a stack trace with an exception ?
Could you add this in your bug report.

> After various attempts I decided to test the same code on SharpDevelop
> with the MS Framework v1.1, this compiled fine and works (ie I get the
> correct response from the server).  This suggests to me that the code is
> fine however it's a bug relating to Mono?? Or am I deluding myself :S
>
> The code doesn't get as far as 'Console.WriteLine("Got Response");'
>
> Any advice appreciated!
>
> << Code Snippet >>
>
> // Service Point
> ServicePointManager.CertificatePolicy = new MyPolicy();
>
> HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)
> HttpWebRequest.Create("https://www.securesite.com/login");
>
> // Crendential Cache
> credentialcache.Add(new Uri("https://www.securesite.com/login"), "Basic",
> new System.Net.NetworkCredential("user", "password"));
>
> webRequest.Credentials = crendentialcache;
>
> 			X509Certificate x509 =
> X509Certificate.CreateFromCertFile("/cert/mycert.cer");
> 			webRequest.ClientCertificates.Add(x509);

You only have to supply a certificate for client-side SSL authentication.
If this is the case then the code is incomplete for Mono - as Mono has no
way to "detect" the private key associated with the certificate.

> 			System.Net.HttpWebResponse response =
> (HttpWebResponse)
> webRequest.GetResponse();
>
> 			Console.WriteLine("Got GetResponse");
>
>
>
> 			System.IO.StreamReader reader = new
> StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
>
> 			string HTML = reader.ReadToEnd();
>
> 			Console.WriteLine(responseHTML);
>
> 			response.Close();
>
> 			reader.Close();
>
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