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package org.apache.catalina.authenticator;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.Principal;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.apache.catalina.connector.Request;

/**
 * An Authenticator and Valve implementation of authentication
 * that utilizes SSL certificates to identify client users.
 *
 * @author Craig R. McClanahan
 */
public class SSLAuthenticator extends AuthenticatorBase {

    // --------------------------------------------------------- Public Methods

    /**
     * Authenticate the user by checking for the existence of a certificate
     * chain, validating it against the trust manager for the connector and then
     * validating the user's identity against the configured Realm.
     *
     * @param request Request we are processing
     * @param response Response we are creating
     *
     * @exception IOException if an input/output error occurs
     */
    @Override
    public boolean authenticate(Request request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws IOException {

        // NOTE: We don't try to reauthenticate using any existing SSO session,
        // because that will only work if the original authentication was
        // BASIC or FORM, which are less secure than the CLIENT-CERT auth-type
        // specified for this webapp
        //
        // Change to true below to allow previous FORM or BASIC authentications
        // to authenticate users for this webapp
        // TODO make this a configurable attribute (in SingleSignOn??)
        if (checkForCachedAuthentication(request, response, false)) {
            return true;
        }

        // Retrieve the certificate chain for this client
        if (containerLog.isDebugEnabled()) {
            containerLog.debug(" Looking up certificates");
        }

        X509Certificate certs[] = getRequestCertificates(request);

        if ((certs == null) || (certs.length < 1)) {
            if (containerLog.isDebugEnabled()) {
                containerLog.debug("  No certificates included with this request");
            }
            response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_UNAUTHORIZED,
                    sm.getString("authenticator.certificates"));
            return false;
        }

        // Authenticate the specified certificate chain
        Principal principal = context.getRealm().authenticate(certs);
        if (principal == null) {
            if (containerLog.isDebugEnabled()) {
                containerLog.debug("  Realm.authenticate() returned false");
            }
            response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_UNAUTHORIZED,
                               sm.getString("authenticator.unauthorized"));
            return false;
        }

        // Cache the principal (if requested) and record this authentication
        register(request, response, principal,
                HttpServletRequest.CLIENT_CERT_AUTH, null, null);
        return true;

    }


    @Override
    protected String getAuthMethod() {
        return HttpServletRequest.CLIENT_CERT_AUTH;
    }
}




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