If I make a request to my Daphne/Django server in Postman or the Android app we're developing, Daphne serves the certificate, but it's rejected. If I first make a simple get request to https://letsencrypt.org/ and then make a request to my server, the certificate is accepted.
How can I make sure a client will trust my certificate, even if it's the first time this client is seeing a certificate issued by this CA?
Everything bellow can serve as a history of how I studied the problem.
Original title: SSL Certificate works in browser but can't be verified by Postman
I have an AWS EC2 instance running Ubuntu 18.04, with python 3, Django, a bunch of project dependencies, Daphne running with ASGI, with a certificate by Let's Encrypt. Daphne is using port 8000 for HTTP and por 4430 for HTTPS, iptables is configured to redirect requests from port 80 to 8000 and from port 443 to 4430. Django is configured to enforce secure connections with SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT=True in the settings.py file.
There's a "Site in Construction" temporary page being served, and it's properly accessible from every browser and every device I tested so far. If I explicitly type http, I get redirected to https and the certificate is accepted. Every browser I tested (Firefox, Brave, Chrome, Chrome for Android) says cert is good.
Curl outputs the HTML content returned from the server. I don't know if it accepts the certificate or ignores it.
The Problem
Postman, however, says "Error: unable to verify the first certificate". Only works when I disable "SSL certificate verification", which doesn't answer my question: why Postman is unable to verify my Let's Encrypt certificate?
I'm building an API that runs on the same server, using the same domain, and it's meant to be consumed by a mobile app. Currently, the Android app is throwing a "TypeError: Network request failed", which I suspect could be caused by the same thing Postman is complaining about.
When I spin the server locally and configure 1) the app to use http://localhost:8000 and 2) the server not to enforce SSL, it works in browsers, Postman and in the Android app.
I've being looking for answers in many places for days, so any clue will be very welcome.
EDIT
Interesting clue:
If I make a request to my Daphne/Django server, it servers the certificate, which is rejected. But if I first make a request to https://letsencrypt.org/ and then make a request to my server, it works!
This pattern holds true in both Postman and our Android app.
It also happens when I first make a request to https://alloy.city (instead of letsencrypt.org), which is served by a Node.js app, and uses a certificate also issued by the Let's Encrypt CA.
So maybe the question should be: how to configure my server to politely invite clients to add the CA that issued my certificate if they hadn't done it yet?.
Apparently, that's what my Node.js server does.
Yes, in settings, tap ssl verification off
File > Settings > General > SSL Certificate Verification > off
Related
I'm currently working on a React project. The development server (Bottle/Python) for the project is hosted remotely, and my React dev-server is localhost. Part of the authentication process for the application involves setting a cookie on login, but because of same-site and secure rules that cookie is not being set, meaning that my dev frontend can't access any of the data that it needs.
Myself and the server engineer have added SameSite=None to the cookie as well as secure, but because my localhost is not https the cookie is still not being stored properly (I get the error message "this Set-Cookie" was blocked because it had the "Secure" attribute but was not received over a secure connection").
There are no issues when the app is deployed because everything is on the same domain, but for now we're stuck - we've been trying to solve the issue for several hours but can't seem to get it.
My question is - what is the best development practice if you need to access a non-local development server, but can't actually just have your own version of the server running on your local machine?
Do I:
Need to make my localhost https somehow?
Need to make the dev-server domain https?
Need to install the server locally because there's just no way to do this?
Apologies if this is a noob question, it would be great to have some advice.
Many thanks.
The short answer is:
No
Yes
No
You can run your app on http://localhost:port. Assuming response from your dev server has in response headers Set-Cookie of the cookie which has Secure flag, your dev server URL has to be https in order to have the cookie accepted by the browser.
I have this setup and it works just well.
Regarding CORS (as mentioned in the title of the question): you have to have you server configured to accept credentials and to have allowed origins configured. The client app when doing XHR request has to have withCredentials:true. Check the points 2 and 3 in my post for details.
Also note, that if you are using Chrome you can bypass for development purposes the requirement to have SameSite=None and Secure by disabling the flag "Cookies without SameSite must be secure", also detailed here
I need to host my Django application using gunicorn on Cloudfoundry on port 443, HTTPS.
I am getting error:
InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made. Adding
certificate verification is strongly advised.
Which is resulting into Internal server error.
How should I add add SSL.
What are server.cert and server.key files? How to add them.
I am getting error:
InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made. Adding certificate verification is strongly advised.
I don't believe this is related. See this SO post for more details on the error.
Suppress InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made in Python2.6
As far as handling HTTPS for your app on Cloud Foundry, good news, there's nothing you need to do. Cloud Foundry will handle TLS termination for incoming requests to your apps. That's it.
If you're curious about the details, there are a lot of them at the following link. The details do depend on how your platform operator has set up TLS termination, so you could also talk with them if you have questions.
https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/adminguide/securing-traffic.html
Hope that helps!
I am trying to use facebook sdk for facebook login.
I gave http://localhost as Valid OAuth Redirect URIs but it throws the following error
HTTPS is required for all Redirect URIs.
I used this future few days ago it worked fine. but now it throws this error
And I am not able to disable
Enforce HTTPS
option
I ran into this issue with my Rails app that I usually run with http://localhost:3000.
To use https, I used ngrok which allows you to use https by providing a tunnel. To do this:
I went to their website and downloaded their program
I extracted the file for the program
In my console, I went into the directory where ngrok was extracted to and entered 'grok http 3000' on my Windows machine, others may use './grok http 3000'
After entering that, ngrok provided a https address which I put into the Valid OAuth Redirect URIs field in Facebook
Then I started my server and was able to access it using that https address instead of localhost:3000
yep, they changed that recently :-(
For testing the login flow locally I installed a self-signed certificate
https://letsencrypt.org/docs/certificates-for-localhost/
btw, I doesn't have to be trusted by the browser if you're OK with a one time security warning.
Don't use this certificate in production!
Facebook payment process is working on the development server.
When we change the callback to the production server it doesn't work : Facebook server never send the request, or we never receive it.
same SSL certificate
We tried on two different machine
Facebook URL test page works
If we change callback to the dev server with an alias URL it works !
https://dev01.tld.com/cgi/ps or https://dev02.tld.com/cgi/ps both pointing to the same IP are working
https://ps01.tld.com/cgi/ps pointing to another IP than dev01 never worked
Does facebook cache the IP address?
How to change this or refresh the facebook cache?
Thanks
I found, this was a SSL problem, not the same SSL config, Facebook begin the request and abort. No log in apache.
Compare your SSL config with openssl s_client -connect ps.tld.com:443
I'm using the Windows HTTP API to process web service requests in C++ (not .NET) and everything works just fine for HTTP requests. When I change the URLs I'm expecting with HttpAddUrl to https://example.com:443/foo/bar my tests from Internet Explorer no longer connect. My code does not get called at all and the calls to HttpReceiveHttpRequest don't complete when an HTTPS request comes in.
I created a certificate authority for myself and it is visible inside IE but I can't figure out what to do next.
What do I need to configure to make HTTP.SYS call my code when an HTTPS request comes in?
You'll need to install the SSL cert in the machine store (mmc.exe, add Certificates snap-in, manage the Computer account, import the cert). Then have a go with httpconfig- it's a GUI version of httpcfg/netsh http that's much easier. I have this tool on every server I maintain that has SSL certs. Once that's configured, your SSL server registration should route correctly.