[rabbitmq-discuss] ssl certificate to client lookup

Mon Jun 28 07:10:10 BST 2010

Matthew Sackman <matthew at rabbitmq.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 03:13:20PM -0600, Nathaniel Haggard wrote:
> > It would be nice if rabbitmq set a header in messages with some
> > metadata from the x509 certificate used to establish the ssl
> > connection.
> 
> Err, why?

FWIW, we currently rely on this functionality: we use X.509 for
authetication and we need to track down who sent a given message
(think JMSXUserID as per http://activemq.apache.org/jmsxuserid.html).

Cheers,

Lionel