X.509 Authentication using Tomcat

[Cantor, Scott]

On 2/20/14, 12:43 PM, "nduan at dtechspace.com" <nduan at dtechspace.com> wrote:

>Apparently the X509 Login Handler
>(https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/X.509+Login+Handler)
> 
>was written for using Apache Httpd as the front end of the Shibboleth
>Java IdP.  Could someone provide any insight on how to make X509
>authentication to work directly with Tomcat without the Httpd?

I see no evidence any of that is true based on a very short look. The
servlet pulls from the standard Java attribute populated with a TLS client
credential. Apache's got nothing to do with it.

-- Scott