Hello - We do not have permission to create a hosts file entry (that was my first idea).
We also do not need both IP address and host name to work at the same time, just the IP address. Our problem seems to be that the Tomcat client wants to find a certificate by hostname, even when the URL requested is by IP address, and a certificate has been imported with an alias of that IP address. I looked at the "a1as" certificate extracted from Glassfish and it does indeed have a host name in the CN field. If this is when it can not be used to validate a call by IP address, then why does importing it with an alias of the IP address not work for us? Thank you, my understanding of this is still weak. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Ognjen Blagojevic<ogn...@etf.bg.ac.rs> wrote: > Jeff Sexton wrote: >> >> We have a situation where we need to call a SOAP service in a >> Glassfish server via HTTPS from a servlet in Tomcat. We extract a >> self-signed certificate from Glassfish and imported it on the Tomcat >> server. It all works in situations where we can use the >> fully-qualified host name in the request and in the alias of the >> certificate when importing on the Tomcat server. >> >> But we need to operate in an environment with a name service. When we >> try to use the IP address of the Glassfish server in the HTTPS call >> and in the certificate alias, the call fails with a "no subject >> alternate name" exception. >> >> In Glassfish to Glassfish calls, using the IP address works fine. >> >> Does anyone know how to make an SSL call from a Tomcat server using >> the IP address only? Is it even possible? > > I'm not 100% sure, but I think it is not possible. > > Your server certificate have Common Name (CN) which can match either FQDN > (server.company.com) or IP (123.123.123.123) - not both. > > You can, however, try to workaround your inability to contact DNS server by > manually inserting the adress to the "hosts" file, if you have permission to > do that. > > Regards, > Ognjen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- Jeff Sexton http://www.elgintime.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
