In order to function as an Application Server in an IMS network, Converged Application Server supports handling the X-3GPP-Asserted-Identity header as specified in 3GPP TS 33.222 Generic Authentication Architecture (GAA); Access to network application functions using Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Transport Layer Security (HTTPS) (http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/33222.htm). Converged Application Server provides this support via a configured security provider, X3gppAssertedIdentityAsserter or X3gppAssertedIdentityStrictAsserter. The providers use the same authentication process, but the "strict" assertion provider also throws an exception when the header is received from a non-trusted host (which enables you to audit asserted identity requests from non-trusted hosts).

The X-3GPP-Asserted-Identity header functions for HTTP requests in the same manner that the P-Asserted-Identity header functions for SIP requests. When the container receives an incoming HTTP requesting having a X-3GPP-Asserted-Identity header, it first verifies that the request was received from a trusted host. If the host was trusted, the container asserts the user's identity using the information in the header, authenticates the user, and logs the user in if that user is authorized to access the requested resource. (If a request comes from a non-trusted host, the container simply ignores the header.)

The X-3GPP-Asserted-Identity header may contain multiple names in a list (for example, user1@oracle.com, user2@oracle.com). When configured with the default user name mapper class, the Converged Application Server providers remove the domain portion of the addresses (@oracle.com) and use the remainder as the user name. The default user name mapper always chooses the first username in the list and uses it for asserting the identity. This behavior can be changed by creating and configuring a custom user name mapper class. For example, if you must support overlapping usernames from different names (for example, sipuser@oracle.com and sipuser@cea.com), a custom user-name mapper might process the header contents into a unique username (for example, sipsuser_b and sipuser_c). Using a custom user name mapper also enables you to support WebLogic user names that contain an "@" character, such as @oracle.com.

In order for SIP Servlets to support authentication with the X-3GPP-Asserted-Identity header, the auth-method element must be set to CLIENT-CERT in the web.xml deployment descriptor. See Oracle Fusion Middleware Securing Oracle WebLogic Server for more information.