GSSAPI JAAS

[angktwap]

Hi,

I am thinking of converting my JAAS GSSAPI Server to a webbased Server.... I have an applet client to connect to the server.... but not to sure how?

Is servlet and tomcat a good choice...

Pls help I really dunno where to start.

thanks in advance

angktwap

 

[sedj]

You don't need tomcat to run an applet, and whether or not tomcat can service incoming connections from your applet client depends upon what protocol the applet is speaking.

GSSAPI as I understood it was a security api, not a server, so I'm unsure whether you mean you have a *Server* running GSSAPI, and want to dump the securoty aspect, or whether you want GSSAPI security from a web server ...

What comm protocol is your current server speaking. Tomcat only speaks HTTP - which may not be what you want. Tomcat is really a "servlet container", used for holding java based applications and JSP to generate dynamic HTML. You may just want a more simple HTTP web server like Apache http server.

Here are a couple of links :

A HTTP web server for static html :

http://httpd.apache.org/

A HTTP servlet container :

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/

 

[angktwap]

Hi,

Really thank you for your reply....

What I actually want to achieve is to access a web appliaction and send an applet to the client then allow the client to authenticate using JAAS with a kerberos server and wraps the message using GSSAPI after creating a GSScontext with the web server application.

The webserver application also does the JAAS and GSSAPI. and after that it act as a normal web application jus that the message is wrap using GSSAPI...

Basically is the webserver to communicte with the applet using GSSAPI security.

thanks

kt