[omniORB] Http Authentication with C++ Sockets.

[Duncan Grisby]

On Monday 4 February, jlou512 wrote:

> I’m trying to connect a C++ client to a Java server on a remote host. Using
> OpenSSL is not an option for me, so I am wondering if there is a way to use
> Http socket authentication with OmniOrb (or if I even need to). I am using
> Sun’s naming service, which is also running on the remote host and the
> server is implemented using Java RMI-IIOP. The setup has worked fine
> locally, but when I ported the server and orbd over to the host, I OmniORB
> caught some BAD_OPERATION exceptions. The remote host uses http
> authentication and I connect a test Java RMI-IIOP client to the server by
> opening a http socket and supplying the username/password. Does anybody know
> if I can do the same thing with OmniORB?

What does the RMI-IIOP client actually do?  Does it tunnel the requests
over http?  omniORB doesn't have any kind of http transport, so I think
you're out of luck.

Duncan.

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