[Mono-list] HttpWebRequest and client certificates

Sebastien Pouliot sebastien.pouliot at gmail.com
Wed May 23 08:09:30 EDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 10:39 +0200, Samuel CARRIERE wrote:
> 
> Bonjour Sebastien,
>  
> I just tested the hack, with mono-1.2.4.20070521.tar.gz, and it works
> like a charm :)

Great news!

Thanks for the confirmation,
Sebastien

> Thank's a lot !
>  
> Samuel
> 
> > Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 13:43:53 -0400
> > From: sebastien.pouliot at gmail.com
> > Subject: Re: [Mono-list] HttpWebRequest and client certificates
> > To: samuel_carriere at hotmail.com
> > CC: mono-list at lists.ximian.com
> > 
> > Bonjour Samuel,
> > 
> > I did commit the hack into SVN and it does work with XSP(*). Let me
> know
> > if this works, or not, in your web service scenario.
> > 
> > (*) http://www.mono-project.com/UsingClientCertificatesWithXSP
> > wiki page was updated to reflect this
> > 
> > Sebastien
> > 
> > On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 13:25 -0400, Sebastien Pouliot wrote:
> > > Bonjour Samuel,
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 14:29 +0200, Samuel CARRIERE wrote:
> > > 
> > > 5 days to get this email ? I guess/hope you're not subscribed to
> the
> > > list.
> > > 
> > > > >On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 17:46 +0100, Michal Ziemski wrote:
> > > > >> Hi!
> > > > >> 
> > > > >> Does HttpWebRequest support client certificates in mono?
> > > > >> Th FAQ 
> > > > >>
> > > >
> (http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_Security#Are_SSL_client_certificates_supported_.3F)
> > > > >> states it doesn't in 1.1, but might in 2.0
> > > > >> 
> > > > >> Does it work in 2.0?
> > > > >
> > > > >There as been progress, both for the new X509Certificate2 and
> > > > X509Store
> > > > >classes, but the HttpWebRequest code hasn't yet been updated.
> This
> > > > part
> > > > >is somewhat interlocked with the new SslStream class (2.0) and
> how
> > > > we'll
> > > > >provide it. 
> > > > >
> > > > >However at this stage it may be possible to make a quick hack
> to add
> > > > >client-side certificate support for *some* 2.0 apps (depending
> on how
> > > > >the certificate is loaded).
> > > > >
> > > > >> 
> > > > >> Cheers!
> > > > >> Michal Ziemski
> > > > >> 
> > > > 
> > > > Hi everybody,
> > > > 
> > > > I am working on a C# mono application that needs client
> certificates
> > > > to call a webservice.
> > > > Sebastien, can you explain a bit what sort of "quick hack" it
> may be
> > > > possible to make, to
> > > > make this following test code work ?
> > > > 
> > > > static void Main(string[] args)
> > > > {
> > > > // Instanciate webservice client
> > > > WSAddition.Addition client = new
> testWsSSL.WSAddition.Addition();
> > > > X509Certificate2 Cert = new
> > > > X509Certificate2("/my/clientCertificate.p12", "password");
> > > > client.ClientCertificates.Add(Cert); 
> > > > // Call webservice method
> > > > int result = client.add(5,6);
> > > > Console.WriteLine("Result : " + result);
> > > > }
> > > > 
> > > > Does it require to hack the HttpWebRequest class ?
> > > 
> > > Yes, but it should be simple. The hack is to supply the private
> key
> > > (available from X509Certificate2) to the SSL code.
> > > 
> > > It would probably take me much longer to set up a client and
> server web
> > > service to test it than to implement it. However if you open a bug
> > > report (http://bugzilla.ximian.com) with a client, working with a
> public
> > > SSL/client certificate web service, I should be able to add this
> fairly
> > > quickly.
> > 
> 
> 
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