Connecting to XML/SOAP feed that requires pkcs12 certificate for client authentication

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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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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