Hi

My tomcat installation offers pages through https only. So when accessing these 
pages, an ssl connection is established.
Later on, a user may decide to "log in", hence hitting a page, that requires 
client certificates, and the browser pops up a selection dialog for a 
certificate.
Once chosen, the server recognized the user by its certificate, and everything 
is fine.
So far, so good.

Now I have 2 problems:

1. When clicking "logout" in the application, the server terminates its 
internal session for that user, but the ssl connection is not terminated.
That means, as soon as anyone clicks login again, the old certificate is reused.
So the user cannot login using another certificate.

2. The second problem with that is, that if the certificate was on a smartcard 
and that card was removed, that cannot be detected.

Is there any way to tell tomcat to tell the browser to drop the tls session 
state and "restart"?


Regards,
  Steffen

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