HTTP Invoker and client authentication

[dcorbin]

I would like to use HTTP Invoker, to call a particular remote service. No big deal there. We'll actually call it using HTTPS, which I don't think is a big deal.

What might be a big deal, is we need to authenticate the client machine making the request. Each such machine will have a Certificate (because they are in fact also HTTPS servers), and we need 1) be sure they're how they say they are, and 2) validate who they say they are against a list of known machines.

Does HttpInvoker support this? If so, how?

[wims.tijd]

Hi extend CommonsHttpInvokerRequestExecutor
override RemoteInvocationResult doExecuteRequest
the see the how to ssl at commons httpclient