Hi, In one of my Asp.Net 2.0 application i have to retrieve the data from
other server which is using the SSL Client certificates to authenticate.
to accomplish this i have used the HttpWebRequest and pass the SSL
Certificate to it, and it works fine while running the project from the
Visual Studio every thing works fine but when we deploy the site to the IIS,
it starts giving the error and returns the *"The remote server returned an
error: (403) Forbidden.*"
I have tried to deploy the application to both the IIS 6 and IIS 7 and the
behavior remains same, however the request logs an event in the System Event
Log which is something like "The remote server has requested SSL client
authentication, but no suitable client certificate could be found. An
anonymous connection will be attempted. This SSL connection request may
succeed or fail, depending on the server's policy settings."
Here is my code to create a request and pass that to the server.
HttpWebRequest wr = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(ServerURL);
X509Certificate cert = new
X509Certificate(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/CertName.p12"),
"Password");
// Also Tried This but the Problem Remains Same
//X509Certificate.CreateFromCertFile(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/CertName.cer"));
wr.ClientCertificates.Add(cert);
wr.Method = "POST";
wr.PreAuthenticate = true;
byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(RequestData);
wr.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
using (Stream requestStream = wr.GetRequestStream())
{
requestStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
requestStream.Flush();
requestStream.Close();
}
#region "getting request and processing it"
using (WebResponse wrp = wr.GetResponse())
{
// Code to process the response
}
I have even used the <identity impersonate="true" userName="xxxx\xxxxx"
password="*******"/>
and also have installed the certificate to the browser but all is in in
vain.
Can any body please help me out on this.
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Regards,
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Asif Raza Ashraf
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