From: "Hose A. Cuervo" <jose@...>
Date: 2006-01-01T05:47:59+09:00
Subject: WEBrick servlet for https



I'm writing a servlet subclassed from   
WEBrick::HTTPServlet::AbstractServlet
to be used in a WEBrick::HTTPServer over ssl.

When the servlet receives the instance of  WEBrick::HTTPRequest passed
into it's constructor, that instance contains an attribute called  
@client_cert.

The server is configured to require and verify a client web browser  
certificate,
and everthing works as expected. But @client_cert seems to be always set  
to nil.
I need to somehow obtain the .pem encoded client cert, and extract some of  
it's
elements.

Perhaps I have overlooked something in the instantiation of my servlet,
or the https server itself.  Complete documentation of this API seems  
scarce.
Any advice or pointers to documentation would be appreciated.