Rails - Oct 2006 - Connecting to XML/SOAP feed that requires pkcs12 certificate for client authentication

All,

I''m stumped.  I need to connect to an XML/SOAP feed... that''s
normally
not an issue.  But this one has a hoop that threw me for a loop.  Some
corporate security geek implented it such that a client certificate
(pkcs12) is required to validate my identity before their system will
talk to me.

The remote system is, of course, running J2EE w/ EJB inside their
firewall.  But for external parties, they require the certificate on
top of the SSL connection.

I know how to do it on .Net/IIS (basically we have to create a Java
keystore and import the PKCS#12 Token).

Problem is we''re in the process of leaving .Net and are doing all our
new apps in RoR.  By mid-2007 we won''t be a MS shop anymore.  But this
one has me stumped.  I can''t for the life of me figure out how to make
RoR pass a client certificate in the connection stream.

Ideas?

Thanks in advance!
- Daniel


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On 10/18/06, Davoice <pentecost-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I''m stumped.  I need to connect to an XML/SOAP feed...
that''s normally
> not an issue.  But this one has a hoop that threw me for a loop.  Some
> corporate security geek implented it such that a client certificate
> (pkcs12) is required to validate my identity before their system will
> talk to me.
>
> Ideas?
soap4r comes with an example that demonstrates how you can use
certificates on the client side.

http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r/browser/trunk/sample/soap/ssl

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Thanks much!  I wasn''t aware that soap4r supported client
authentication using certificates.

I''ll reply back once we''ve tested it to let everyone know if
we had
success.

- Daniel


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