[aerogear-dev] UPS Java Client should support client authentication

[tolis emmanouilidis]

2014-03-07 18:21 GMT+02:00 Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>:

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> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Stefan Miklosovic <smikloso at redhat.com>wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> we are doing HTTPS tests on UPS integration tests where UPS Java client
>> is used to send some payload to UPS, it seems it is not sufficient to have
>> only plain HTTP sender when we are sending it to HTTPS endpoint.
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>> When JBoss AS is set up with keystore and truststore in https connector
>> for web subsystem like this:
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>> <connector name="https" protocol="HTTP/1.1" scheme="https"
>> socket-binding="https" secure="true">
>>     <ssl name="aerogear-ssl" key-alias="aerogear"
>>         password="aerogear"
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>> certificate-key-file="${jboss.server.config.dir}/aerogear.keystore"
>>         protocol="ALL"
>>         verify-client="none"
>>         certificate-file="${jboss.server.config.dir}/aerogear.keystore"
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>> ca-certificate-file="${jboss.server.config.dir}/aerogear.truststore"/>
>> </connector>
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>> and UPS Java client sends some payload (with HttpUrlConnection, not
>> secure connection), this exception is thown from it:
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> I guess we can use, for https, the HttpsUrlConnection - that;s what you
> are basically asking, right ?
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> Mind to create PR for that ?
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> Thanks!
> Matthias
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The certificate used in UPS integration tests is self signed. The SSL
handshake, most probably will fail even when using HttpsUrlConnection, if
the custom truststore is not set. I believe that the existing UPS sender
version will work when a real, valid certificate is used instead of a self
signed one.

This issue could be fixed if UPS sender was providing a functionality to
set up and use a custom TrustManager which contains the Keystore with the
self signed certificate. In my opinion, the question is whether supporting
self signed certificates in UPS sender, brings value.

Thanks,
Tolis


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>> SEVERE: Send did not succeed: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException:
>> PKIX path building failed:
>> sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find
>> valid certification path to requested target
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>> This basically means that server was not able to mark that connection as
>> trusted.
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>> In order to use custom trustStore and trustStorePassword, they are
>> propagated to test like system properties
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>> System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", "aerogear.truststore");
>> System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", "aerogear");
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>> however any attempt to set them in test itself like that is not
>> successful since it is "too late". When they are set like -D properties
>> with maven, it is executed without any problems.
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>> This does not work as well
>> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unifiedpush-java-client#known-issuessince we are not using jsse (and can not) because of this issue
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBPAPP6-711 which was repaired in 7.1.2
>> and that release is not community release anymore so we can not base tests
>> on EAP and we are running them on 7.1.1. (we can not run them on WF as well
>> since it is not compatible with EAP but 7.1.1 is).
>>
>> So this is chicken-egg problem. When verify-client is "none" plain http
>> from UPS Java client is not validated. When we do want client
>> authentication (verify-client=want/true), UPS sender is not https aware.
>> Additionally, we can not use "jsse" due to JBPAPP6-711.
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> Stefan Miklosovic
>> Red Hat Brno - JBoss Mobile Platform
>>
>> e-mail: smikloso at redhat.com
>> irc: smikloso
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