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src/java.naming/share/classes/javax/naming/ldap/StartTlsRequest.java

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  26 package javax.naming.ldap;
  27 
  28 import java.util.Iterator;
  29 import java.security.AccessController;
  30 import java.security.PrivilegedAction;
  31 import javax.naming.ConfigurationException;
  32 import javax.naming.NamingException;
  33 import com.sun.naming.internal.VersionHelper;
  34 import java.util.ServiceLoader;
  35 import java.util.ServiceConfigurationError;
  36 
  37 /**
  38  * This class implements the LDAPv3 Extended Request for StartTLS as
  39  * defined in
  40  * <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2830.txt">Lightweight Directory
  41  * Access Protocol (v3): Extension for Transport Layer Security</a>
  42  *
  43  * The object identifier for StartTLS is 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.20037
  44  * and no extended request value is defined.
  45  *<p>
  46  * <tt>StartTlsRequest</tt>/<tt>StartTlsResponse</tt> are used to establish
  47  * a TLS connection over the existing LDAP connection associated with
  48  * the JNDI context on which <tt>extendedOperation()</tt> is invoked.
  49  * Typically, a JNDI program uses these classes as follows.
  50  * <blockquote><pre>
  51  * import javax.naming.ldap.*;
  52  *
  53  * // Open an LDAP association
  54  * LdapContext ctx = new InitialLdapContext();
  55  *
  56  * // Perform a StartTLS extended operation
  57  * StartTlsResponse tls =
  58  *     (StartTlsResponse) ctx.extendedOperation(new StartTlsRequest());
  59  *
  60  * // Open a TLS connection (over the existing LDAP association) and get details
  61  * // of the negotiated TLS session: cipher suite, peer certificate, etc.
  62  * SSLSession session = tls.negotiate();
  63  *
  64  * // ... use ctx to perform protected LDAP operations
  65  *
  66  * // Close the TLS connection (revert back to the underlying LDAP association)
  67  * tls.close();
  68  *


 110     /**
 111      * Retrieves the StartTLS request's ASN.1 BER encoded value.
 112      * Since the request has no defined value, null is always
 113      * returned.
 114      *
 115      * @return The null value.
 116      */
 117     public byte[] getEncodedValue() {
 118         return null;
 119     }
 120 
 121     /**
 122      * Creates an extended response object that corresponds to the
 123      * LDAP StartTLS extended request.
 124      * <p>
 125      * The result must be a concrete subclass of StartTlsResponse
 126      * and must have a public zero-argument constructor.
 127      * <p>
 128      * This method locates the implementation class by locating
 129      * configuration files that have the name:
 130      * <blockquote><tt>
 131      *     META-INF/services/javax.naming.ldap.StartTlsResponse
 132      * </tt></blockquote>
 133      * The configuration files and their corresponding implementation classes must
 134      * be accessible to the calling thread's context class loader.
 135      * <p>
 136      * Each configuration file should contain a list of fully-qualified class
 137      * names, one per line.  Space and tab characters surrounding each name, as
 138      * well as blank lines, are ignored.  The comment character is <tt>'#'</tt>
 139      * (<tt>0x23</tt>); on each line all characters following the first comment
 140      * character are ignored.  The file must be encoded in UTF-8.
 141      * <p>
 142      * This method will return an instance of the first implementation
 143      * class that it is able to load and instantiate successfully from
 144      * the list of class names collected from the configuration files.
 145      * This method uses the calling thread's context classloader to find the
 146      * configuration files and to load the implementation class.
 147      * <p>
 148      * If no class can be found in this way, this method will use
 149      * an implementation-specific way to locate an implementation.
 150      * If none is found, a NamingException is thrown.
 151      *
 152      * @param id         The object identifier of the extended response.
 153      *                   Its value must be "1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.20037" or null.
 154      *                   Both values are equivalent.
 155      * @param berValue   The possibly null ASN.1 BER encoded value of the
 156      *                   extended response. This is the raw BER bytes
 157      *                   including the tag and length of the response value.
 158      *                   It does not include the response OID.
 159      *                   Its value is ignored because a Start TLS response




  26 package javax.naming.ldap;
  27 
  28 import java.util.Iterator;
  29 import java.security.AccessController;
  30 import java.security.PrivilegedAction;
  31 import javax.naming.ConfigurationException;
  32 import javax.naming.NamingException;
  33 import com.sun.naming.internal.VersionHelper;
  34 import java.util.ServiceLoader;
  35 import java.util.ServiceConfigurationError;
  36 
  37 /**
  38  * This class implements the LDAPv3 Extended Request for StartTLS as
  39  * defined in
  40  * <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2830.txt">Lightweight Directory
  41  * Access Protocol (v3): Extension for Transport Layer Security</a>
  42  *
  43  * The object identifier for StartTLS is 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.20037
  44  * and no extended request value is defined.
  45  *<p>
  46  * {@code StartTlsRequest}/{@code StartTlsResponse} are used to establish
  47  * a TLS connection over the existing LDAP connection associated with
  48  * the JNDI context on which {@code extendedOperation()} is invoked.
  49  * Typically, a JNDI program uses these classes as follows.
  50  * <blockquote><pre>
  51  * import javax.naming.ldap.*;
  52  *
  53  * // Open an LDAP association
  54  * LdapContext ctx = new InitialLdapContext();
  55  *
  56  * // Perform a StartTLS extended operation
  57  * StartTlsResponse tls =
  58  *     (StartTlsResponse) ctx.extendedOperation(new StartTlsRequest());
  59  *
  60  * // Open a TLS connection (over the existing LDAP association) and get details
  61  * // of the negotiated TLS session: cipher suite, peer certificate, etc.
  62  * SSLSession session = tls.negotiate();
  63  *
  64  * // ... use ctx to perform protected LDAP operations
  65  *
  66  * // Close the TLS connection (revert back to the underlying LDAP association)
  67  * tls.close();
  68  *


 110     /**
 111      * Retrieves the StartTLS request's ASN.1 BER encoded value.
 112      * Since the request has no defined value, null is always
 113      * returned.
 114      *
 115      * @return The null value.
 116      */
 117     public byte[] getEncodedValue() {
 118         return null;
 119     }
 120 
 121     /**
 122      * Creates an extended response object that corresponds to the
 123      * LDAP StartTLS extended request.
 124      * <p>
 125      * The result must be a concrete subclass of StartTlsResponse
 126      * and must have a public zero-argument constructor.
 127      * <p>
 128      * This method locates the implementation class by locating
 129      * configuration files that have the name:
 130      * <blockquote>{@code 
 131      *     META-INF/services/javax.naming.ldap.StartTlsResponse
 132      * }</blockquote>
 133      * The configuration files and their corresponding implementation classes must
 134      * be accessible to the calling thread's context class loader.
 135      * <p>
 136      * Each configuration file should contain a list of fully-qualified class
 137      * names, one per line.  Space and tab characters surrounding each name, as
 138      * well as blank lines, are ignored.  The comment character is {@code '#'}
 139      * ({@code 0x23}); on each line all characters following the first comment
 140      * character are ignored.  The file must be encoded in UTF-8.
 141      * <p>
 142      * This method will return an instance of the first implementation
 143      * class that it is able to load and instantiate successfully from
 144      * the list of class names collected from the configuration files.
 145      * This method uses the calling thread's context classloader to find the
 146      * configuration files and to load the implementation class.
 147      * <p>
 148      * If no class can be found in this way, this method will use
 149      * an implementation-specific way to locate an implementation.
 150      * If none is found, a NamingException is thrown.
 151      *
 152      * @param id         The object identifier of the extended response.
 153      *                   Its value must be "1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.20037" or null.
 154      *                   Both values are equivalent.
 155      * @param berValue   The possibly null ASN.1 BER encoded value of the
 156      *                   extended response. This is the raw BER bytes
 157      *                   including the tag and length of the response value.
 158      *                   It does not include the response OID.
 159      *                   Its value is ignored because a Start TLS response


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