[jetty-users] How to configure Jetty 9 so x509 client certificate is tra

[Alexei Mikhailov <alexei.mikhailov@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

I'm trying to setup Jetty 9 so that client certificate is passed with 
HTTPs requests.
I followed current instructions when setting up ssl (including 
certificates generation): 
http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/configuring-ssl.html. 
I also have a dummy client certificate that I added to my FireFox 
certificates.

My very basic simple servlet that prints out value of
  request.getAttribute( "javax.servlet.request.X509Certificate" );

always prints null back instead of Object reference. The odd thing is 
that server doesn't "ask" for user certificate when I call servlet 
(i.o.w. there is no popup "select certificate", as it is for instance 
when I connect to Apache's ssl connection) via 
https://myserver:8443/simple-servlet.

I have a working setup with Jetty 6.1.26 and AJP connector (so request 
chain looks like Apache:443 -> Jetty's AJP:8009). In this environment, 
the same servlet outputs an Object reference (naturally, url is slightly 
different, https://myserver:443/simple-servlet).

I wonder whether I'm missing something in my Jetty 9 ssl/https 
configuration files? So far I only found a number of references to 
setting "NeedClientAuth" property to true for SslContextFactory, but 
doing that only causes the request to be aborted by Jetty (nothing gets 
logged in stderr, but I can see that in Firebug's NET tab).
It also is very possible I'm missing something obvious, or trying to do 
something that is impossible -- this area is fairly new to me.

I can provide my current config files if that's needed.

Thanks in advance,
Alex-