Hi,

seems that MSIE for some reason resets the connection forcing a new SSL
session to be created. (This seems to be an TLSv1 issue as well, TLSv1.1
available with Java7 is said to be more "tolerant" on that). I don't know
whether this behavior of MSIE can be influenced. 

Regards,
Matthias



Meandron80 wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with tomcat SSL session resuming using MSIE. In my
> webapp, user authentication is done using the
> "org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn" valve and a corresponding
> realm (PKI authentication). Now accessing the webapp, which uses a
> frameset that might be part of the problem, results in the following logs.
> 
> *** ClientHello, TLSv1
> RandomCookie:  GMT: 1254330738 bytes = { 67, 136, 202, 169, 151, 124, 142,
> 187, 135, 183, 161, 157, 81, 240, 254, 21, 180, 139, 139, 46, 32, 65, 155,
> 230, 69, 24, 175, 180 }
> Session ID:  {75, 196, 142, 249, 121, 35, 217, 254, 49, 37, 92, 86, 255,
> 220, 61, 188, 8, 128, 86, 203, 172, 93, 103, 185, 114, 43, 169, 80, 236,
> 96, 181, 108}
> Cipher Suites: [SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5, SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA,
> SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA,
> SSL_RSA_EXPORT1024_WITH_RC4_56_SHA, SSL_RSA_EXPORT1024_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA,
> SSL_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5, SSL_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC2_CBC_40_MD5,
> SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA,
> SSL_DHE_DSS_EXPORT1024_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA]
> Compression Methods:  { 0 }
> ***
> %% Created:  [Session-28, SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5]
> *** ServerHello, TLSv1
> RandomCookie:  GMT: 1254330670 bytes = { 70, 109, 88, 141, 114, 86, 38,
> 165, 172, 3, 134, 203, 86, 192, 194, 212, 222, 116, 116, 70, 224, 228,
> 141, 46, 205, 21, 60, 245 }
> Session ID:  {75, 196, 145, 46, 223, 171, 82, 104, 96, 0, 209, 75, 145,
> 92, 61, 143, 30, 199, 157, 239, 160, 76, 28, 177, 71, 221, 98, 117, 244,
> 137, 146, 126}
> 
> As you can see, the MSIE client wants to resume the SSL session, but a new
> one is created every time a new request is sent. In the logs I can also
> see entries like the following:
> 
> http-8444-5, handling exception: java.net.SocketException: Connection
> reset
> %% Invalidated:  [Session-27, SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5]
> http-8444-5, SEND TLSv1 ALERT:  fatal, description = unexpected_message
> 
> Seems, the socket is closed after every request resulting in a new SSL
> handshake. 
> 
> Here is my connector setup:
> 
> <Connector port="8444" maxHttpHeaderSize="16384" bufferSize="16384"
>              protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol" 
>                maxThreads="150" enableLookups="false"
> disableUploadTimeout="true"
>                acceptCount="100" scheme="https" secure="true"
>                clientAuth="true"
>                sslProtocol="TLSv1" 
>                connectionTimeout="240000"
>              SSLEnabled="true" keystoreFile=<someFile>"
> keystorePass="<somePass>" keystoreType="pkcs12" truststoreFile=<someFile>"
> truststorePass="<somePass>" truststoreType="jks" />
> 
> The strange thing is that everything works as expected using Firefox, i.e.
> the SSL session is resumed for subsequent requests. But I need to get it
> run on MSIE as well. 
> 
> Thanks for any help on that!
> 
> Regards,
> Matthias
> 

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