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RE: Prompting for client certificate and/or password; FAQ seems a bit unclear

From: Mark Phippard <markp_at_softlanding.com>
Date: 2005-12-09 20:21:52 CET

"Alexander Kitaev" <alex@tmate.org> wrote on 12/09/2005 12:19:32 PM:

> Hello,
>
> > > JavaHL you would be talking the 1.4 release of Subversion at the
> > > absolute earliest so that would be anywhere from 6-8 months to 1+
> > > years depending on whether it was done in 1.4 or not.
> >
> > Ouch! I can only hope that the JavaSVN developer team choses
> > to implement a prompting feature sooner. Pretty please.
> I expect this feature to be included into JavaSVN 1.1 version that will
be
> published soon after official Subversion 1.3.0 release. I've invetigated
the
> possibilities to add such prompt, and the only problem I could see for
now
> is that there is now way to detect whether server will need client
> certificate or not in advance.
>
> So, JavaSVN may prompt for client certificate file and password only
when
> certain configuration property is set, for instance
> "ssl-client-cert-prompt=yes". This option will be specific for JavaSVN
of
> course. What do you think on that?
>
> As soon as prompting for client certificate is implemented in JavaSVN (I
> think I will have time to that this weekend), Subclipse will have to
provide
> UI for this feature, the same way it does for ssh key prompt.

Sounds good.

I do not quite understand why you need to set a property though. Are you
not able to respond to the request for a client certificate "on-demand"
when it is asked for?

Where would the property be set? In the Subversion config area?

Mark

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