November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
542 pages
14h 24m
English
Unfortunately, if we said that getting client certificate authentication configured correctly for the first time—without anything going wrong—was easy, we'd be lying to you. The fact is, although this is a great and very powerful security apparatus, it is poorly documented by both the browser and web server manufacturers, and the error messages, when present, can be confusing at best and misleading at worst.
Remember that, at this point, we have not involved Spring Security in the equation at all, so a debugger will most likely not help you (unless you have the Tomcat source code handy). There are some common errors and things to check.
You aren't prompted for a certificate when you access ...
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