swift-server / swift-server/async-http-client
Authenticate using certificate and passphrase like curl's `--cert` option
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Description
I'm working with Vapor on Linux on a API which connects to a URL and send it a XML, this URL needs certificate authentication (.pem, or p12) and passphrase.
Using curl on terminal works perfect, with this command:
curl -X POST https://myurl.com/api -H "ContentType: application/xml" --cert file.pem:password -d "<xml>my awesome xml</xml>"
Ref: https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html#-E
Now I'm trying to figure it to how to implement using TLSConfiguration.forClient(), based on this comment: https://github.com/swift-server/async-http-client/issues/27#issuecomment-489760481, and I'm not sure how to "inject" the certificate and its passphrase and later using it on one of my routes.
Any help appreciated
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with TLSConfiguration.forClient() and the linked async-http-client issue comment to understand how client TLS settings are configured. Determine how a PEM or PKCS#12 certificate and passphrase should be supplied for the HTTPS request, then verify that the certificate-authenticated XML POST works against the described API.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- swift
- Domain
- networking, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100