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Re: How to pass a certificate to an upstream

February 09, 2011 09:22AM
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 03:09:08PM +0100, rainer@ultra-secure.de wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 02:54:21PM +0100, rainer@ultra-secure.de wrote:
> >
> >> I want to put NGINX in front of a server that requires
> >> client-certificates.
> >> I need to pass the certificate to the upstream.
> >>
> >> How does one do that?
> >>
> >> The upstream is a native jboss server (EJBCA in fact).
> >
> > You can pass client certificate using some header, X-SSL-CERT, for
> > example:
> > proxy_set_header X-SSL-CERT $ssl_client_cert;
> > But I do not know how to get process it on jboss side.
>
>
> OK, so I would need to ask on the EJBCA-side of things, it seems?
>
> I read about $ssl_client_cert but couldn'd figure out how to pass it to
> the upstream.

Yes, on backend side the header should conatains a client certificate
in PEM format.


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How to pass a certificate to an upstream

Anonymous User February 09, 2011 08:58AM

Re: How to pass a certificate to an upstream

Igor Sysoev February 09, 2011 09:04AM

Re: How to pass a certificate to an upstream

Anonymous User February 09, 2011 09:12AM

Re: How to pass a certificate to an upstream

Igor Sysoev February 09, 2011 09:22AM



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