Dennis,

Thank-you.

John


On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Dennis Sosnoski <[email protected]> wrote:

> The SslContextToken part of the policy is a Microsoft-defined extension
> to the standard which is not widely (or at all?) supported by Java
> stacks. It provides a way for the client to get a server certificate at
> the time of setting up a connection, rather than having it in advance in
> a truststore (the normal scenario). This page discusses it in more
> detail, including telling the Microsoft developers how to turn it off in
> their configuration:
>
> http://webservices20.blogspot.com/2008/10/interoperability-gotcha-sslcontexttoken.html
>
> As to implementing support for it in CXF, it's probably going to be
> fairly involved. AFAIK there's no existing case of runtime certificate
> negotiation you could use as the basis for your code, so you'd have to
> implement the negotiation part yourself, then add the server certificate
> to a truststore for use by the WSS4J security implementation code - but
> only for the duration of the secure conversation.
>
>  - Dennis
>
>
> On 12/25/2010 08:35 AM, John Franey wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Dennis Sosnoski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> John, you might try downloading the sample code from the
> >> SymmetricBinding article referenced by Glen
> >> (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jws17/index.html) as
> a
> >> basis for trying your policy. First build and test the supplied sample
> >> using your CXF installation, then substitute your policy for the one in
> >> the sample code WSDL. Hopefully that could help you find the cause of
> >> the problems.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > OK, using cxf 2.2.8, I make the policy substitution, and get this, with
> > scencr:
> >
> >      [java] Dec 24, 2010 1:55:01 PM
> > org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.AssertionBuilderRegistryImpl build
> >      [java] WARNING: No assertion builder for type {
> >
> http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/07/securitypolicy}SslContextTokenregistered
> .
> >      [java] Dec 24, 2010 1:55:02 PM
> > org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain doDefaultLogging
> >      [java] WARNING: Interceptor for {
> >
> http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/trust/wsdl}SecurityTokenService#{http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/trust/wsdl}RequestSecurityTokenhas
> > thrown exception, unwinding now
> >      [java] org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault: No signature token
> >      [java] at
> >
> org.apache.cxf.ws.security.wss4j.policyhandlers.SymmetricBindingHandler.doSignBeforeEncrypt(SymmetricBindingHandler.java:384)
> >
> > I interpret the first warning to mean an 'assertion builder' needs to be
> > implemented and registered for this type.   Is this 'builder' a pluggable
> > component?  How would I find out if a builder for this type already
> exists?
> >  Is implementing a builder a complex task?  Is this work reserved to cxf
> > developers or are users of the library expected to provide these as they
> > need?  If I get one, or write one, how do I register it?  Is it easier to
> > beg the service provider to change the policy and if so, how can I
> express
> > that in their terms (I am an alien to the .net environment)?
> >
> > I interpret the second warning to mean that I did not satisfy the
> > configuration requirement of the policy.  In this case, it is missing its
> > signature token.  I need to discover the name of this property, and how
> to
> > set it, and what value to set it to.
> >
> > So, I guess I have some digging through the cxf pages.  Am I asking the
> > right questions? and do you expect the cxf web pages will give me
> answers?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> >
> > The comment from the article that "CXF was the only stack that worked
> >
> >> with the policy as written." only applied to the WS-SecureConversation
> >> policy shown in Listing 2. WS-SC configurations tend to be more
> >> failure-prone than regular WS-Security configurations, in my experience,
> >> since there are more "moving parts" involved in the operation. All three
> >> of the stacks I tried were able to handle the basic SymmetricBinding
> >> configuration.
> >>
> >>  - Dennis
> >>
> >> Dennis M. Sosnoski
> >> Java SOA and Web Services Consulting <
> http://www.sosnoski.com/consult.html
> >>
> >>>
> >> Axis2/CXF/Metro SOA and Web Services Training
> >> <http://www.sosnoski.com/training.html>
> >> Web Services Jump-Start <http://www.sosnoski.com/jumpstart.html>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 12/24/2010 10:26 AM, Glen Mazza wrote:
> >>
> >>> If *could* be your service provider is not detecting the
> >>> SymmetricBinding tag because two additional libraries need to be
> >>> declared in your web.xml:
> >>> http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/cxf_x509_profile_secpol (see the
> >>> section on |contextConfigLocation|, it will point you to a username
> >>> token article.)
> >>>
> >>> HTH,
> >>> Glen
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 23.12.2010 16:20, John Franey wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Glen Mazza<[email protected]>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> On http://www.sosnoski.com/articles.html, I think you'll want the
> 2nd
> >>>>> article:WS-Security without client certificates<
> >>>>> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jws17/index.html>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This statement from that article is why I am wanting to use CXF:
> >>>>> "CXF was
> >>>>>
> >>>> the only stack that worked with the policy as written."
> >>>>
> >>>> The policy I am consuming looks much like the ones in his article.
> >>>> So, I'm
> >>>> expecting success.  I believe symmetric binding is supported.
> >>>>
> >>>> Should I conclude that the 'right wsdl' is enough to activate
> symmetric
> >>>> binding?  or is there some other configuration needed?
> >>>>
> >>>> The message "SymmetricBinding not supported" implies the latter, I
> >>>> think.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> HTH,
> >>>>
> >>>>> Glen
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 23.12.2010 15:32, John Franey wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I believe symmetric binding policy is supported in cxf 2.3.1, but
> >>>>>> this log
> >>>>>> message says no:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [PolicyEngineImpl] Alternative {
> >>>>>>
> http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/07/securitypolicy}SymmetricBinding
> >>>>>>
> >> <
> http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/07/securitypolicy%7DSymmetricBinding
> >>
> >>> is
> >>>
> >>>>>> not
> >>>>>> supported
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I've been working over the cxf documentation for over a day.  I am
> >>>>>> stumped.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> What do I have to do to turn on support for symmetric binding?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I'm writing a client that will run in jbossws-cxf 3.4.0.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>> John
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Glen Mazza
> >>>>> gmazza at apache dot org
> >>>>> http://www.jroller.com/gmazza
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>

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