[Htmlunit-user] SSL Client Authentication

[Vinay M. <vin...@gm...>]

Hi,

I am trying to connect to a site that performs client authentication
as a part of the SSL handshake. I have jdk 1.4.2_06 and HtmlUnit 1.4.
JSSE comes integrated with the jdk.

JSSE doesnt seem to be picking up the certificate from the keystore
during the client authentication phase. I googled around and found
some code snippets that involved writing my own KeyManager and forcing
my certificate's alias to be returned whenever there's a request to
the KeyManager to pick a client alias. This successfully, results in
the the required certificate being sent to the server.

1) Is this is a known bug about JSSE and should I be sending this mail
to a java forum instead ?
2) Has anybody been able to use HtmlUnit and perform the client
authentication using JSSE but without the force-picking of the client
alias ?
3) If it is required to actually have a custom KeyManager, then I
presume changes should be made to the HttpClient code to use the
customer KeyManager. Is there a way to do this by setting a system
property ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

code snippets I was talking about are available at: 
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=2&thread=198871
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=2&threadID=244247

Best Regards,
Vinay