Thanks for your replies, Gordon. I didn't explicitly mention that I was interested in accessing the Principal from Java but you seem to have guessed that already :-) However, the question is still open, right?
Kai On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:04 PM Gordon Sim <g...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 29/02/16 14:56, Gordon Sim wrote: > > On 28/02/16 15:59, Kai wrote: > >> I was trying to find some examples or documentation regarding how to use > >> SASL in Proton but did not find anything so far. Can you point me into > >> the > >> right direction? In particular I am interested in determining the > >> identity > >> of a client that has been authenticated as part of a TLS handshake (if > >> that's possible) ... > > > > In the c api, pn_ssl_get_remote_subject() gets you the subject field of > > the certificate. In python that is exposed as a remote_subject property > > on the ssl object associated with the transport. > > > > I'm not sure if/how the java api's offer the behaviour, anyone else able > > to comment on that? > > One thing to add/point out here is that proton can be used in different > ways. One use is simply as a protocol engine, with bytes pumped in and > out by an external io component. In that usage model, you would use > java's built in support for SSL (as part of the io). >
