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Client Certificate Authentication with SSL Termination at Load Balancer

Former Member

‎06-07-2007 10:41 AM

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Hi,

We have client certificate authentication onto the J2EE engine (for portal). We are also using a HW load balancer (Cisco). I have read in the following links that by having the AcceptClientCertWithoutSSL property set to true, we can terminate SSL at the load balancer and forward the client certificate to the portal via HTTP. The documentation talks about using Web Dispatcher and ICM, however is this solution possible with a hardware load balancer (e.g. Cisco)?

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/f6/20e5ff18b7354eb7f700bc284552c5/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/ea/301e3e6217b40be10000000a114084/frameset.htm

Many thanks

Jane

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Former Member

‎07-18-2007 8:38 AM

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According to SAP, yes it is possible as long as the load balancer can forward the client cert in an http header.

Regards

Jane