[kwaclaw]

I am currently finishing off an SSL plugin for IceCS (C#).
One of the things I would like to do is pass client certificate
information for a connection to the application, that is,
through Ice.Current.con().

Now, a generic way to do so would be to add an (opaque)
member to Connection, such as (in C# syntax):

    
    public interface _ConnectionOperationsNC
    {
        ...
        object info();  <-- new member
    }

This would also require to add the same kind of new member
to the Transceiver interface, and the method implemention
in the ConnectionI class would be:

        public object info()
        {
            return _transceiver.info();
        }

My Transceiver implementation (SslTransceiver in this case)
can then implement its info() method in any way it sees fit.

All the application needs to do is cast the object back
to a known type. Example (I modified the Hello server to
show the name on the client certificate):

    public override void sayHello(Ice.Current current)
    {
        string msg = string.Empty;
        SslStream ssl = current.con.info() as SslStream;
        if (ssl != null) {
            X509Certificate cert = ssl.RemoteCertificate;
            msg = cert.Subject + " says: ";
        }
        msg += "Hello World!";
        System.Console.Out.WriteLine(msg);
    }

Does that make sense to anyone?

Karl