Client side digital certificates with SSL

[kirsch59]

It is my understanding that ABL does not support client side digital certificates with SSL . The web service that I'm calling requires HTTPS - client side certificates with SSL.

One workaround is to use a proxy server stunnel. Stunnel will handle the SSL encryption/decryption. Does any one have experince with setting up and using this software? Any pointers?

Thanks
Mark

 

[RealHeavyDude]

3 years ago I tried to get a connection working that also requires the SSL client certificate and I evaluated STunnel. There were several things that I did not like and, to be honest, I never got it working so I abandoned it and use WGET instead as HTTP Client. Of course you can't make the call directly from the ABL - but to me that is the lesser of two evils.

Just recently - being promoted to OE11.3 - I tried the same thing using the respective .NET classes directly from the ABL. To my surprise after an hour I got it working without a fuzz using the HttpWebRequest object from .NET.

Heavy Regards, RealHeavyDude.