I keep getting Connection Failed when trying to request data from a page that is on an https:// domain. I did install the ssl cert using the built-in section of the railo admin at https://[mydomain]/railo-context/admin/server.cfm?action=services.certificates however I still get Connection Failed. How should I go forward with debugging this? I have confirmed that this server in particular does have access to the domain I am trying to request from.
You probably need some additional certs installed as Jason has said. Take a close look at the cert and it's chain. Go to the cert issuers site and look for some documentation.
To troubleshoot you can add some logging to your jvm args. I think it's something like:
-Djavax.net.debug=all
The results are either in the OUT log or the server.log. This post on SSL 3.0 has some debugging tips. It's possible that your cert needs to handshake at a lower security level than CF allows (SSL 2.0 instead of 3.0/TLS for instance) and that could cause this behavior - but it's more likely that you simply need an intermediate cert installed.
The problem ended up being the permissions weren't setup properly on the machine. After we had the server administrator fix our permissions to access the Railo-Tomcat Service Control, the requests started working. I'm assuming he fixed some other permissions while he was in there.
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Im working on some JSON-based web service that is supposed to work with Android application.
I would like to encrypt data transport between client (android) and server (virtual server in datacenter).
I don't have to make sure that my server is my server, just data encryption.
I have no idea how to use HTTPS.
Do I just put my PHP files in private_html and use https://example.com url?
To use HTTPS, you don't have to do anything in the coding of your web service - it's all in your hosting. Here the are steps you can follow. The specific instructions differ in your hosting (IIS, Apache, AWS/Azure, etc), but you can google specifics on how to accomplish any of these steps for whatever host and application framework you decide.
Buy an SSL certificate (there are many different vendors, but expect between $75-$200 for the certificate) based on the vendor, reputation, and level of security you need.
Generate a certificate signing request (CSR) from the server you'll be hosting.
Upload the CSR to the SSL vendor who will validate and provide the certificate for your use.
Import the SSL certificate into your application server, and configure the site to use the certificate. For instance, if you're hosting Microsoft IIS, you'd import the SSL certificate and then add HTTPS bindings on 443 to the specific website hosting your web service.
Another point of security. Since you are deploying SSL, you don't have to do any application level encryption (assuming you are not putting sensitive information in query strings - use POST if you think you need to). You probably would want to implement some security to restrict access to your web service so only your app can access it. Best practice is some level of OAuth, but at a minimum some type of pre-shared key in the header of the request is a lot better than nothing.
Here are some additional sites for more information:
https://www.digicert.com/ssl-certificate-installation.htm
https://support.godaddy.com/help/category/742/ssl-certificates-installing-ssl-certificates?prog_id=GoDaddy
If you don't want to pay for a certificate, you can use certificate signet by your own CA and add the root certificates into your application using HTTPClient and keystores
Here there's some guides
http://datacenteroverlords.com/2012/03/01/creating-your-own-ssl-certificate-authority/
http://developer.android.com/reference/org/apache/http/client/HttpClient.html
KeyStore, HttpClient, and HTTPS: Can someone explain this code to me?
http://blog.antoine.li/2010/10/22/android-trusting-ssl-certificates/
You can limit users to use JUST and only HTTPS in apache, IIS or whatever do you use. If your client connects to your server, his communications will be likely to encrypted, because he is already using HTTPS. And for responsing in HTTPS you virtually cannot send HTTPS responses, as far as I know, unless that other side isn't also a website (for example, if you have your website, you could send such a response e.g. to Google). You should be okay to send data like http status codes (OK, NotModified, PageNotFound, ...), or if you want something more, or if it is a requirement, then there you still have JSON and you could encode it as well, with some encoding algorithms, or use binary JSON format.
Check if your hosting company provides a free public shared https address. Most of them do.
If you want to understand how to do it right, follow this thread
Warning: Don't stick with the solution below for production.
If you plan o use an https endpoint without a certificate you have to make sure to disable peer verification, check this answer
I am using echo_server_tls example with Chrome client. It works fine when I add the certificate to "Trusted Root Certificate Authorities" in certmgr. But if the certificate is not added there, the connection fails silently.
How can I ask user to accept my certificate in case of "Certificate Authority" error?
My OS is Windows 7
You can't do anything once the certificate error is encountered... it's a security feature. What you can do, however, is instruct users before they attempt to use your server that they must install your root certificate. One possible solution is to have them go to an "insecure" (unencrypted) site where the instructions are, then proceed to the "secure" site.
As a side note, buying a real "signed-by-well-known-authority" certificate is not difficult nor expensive... the cost is far less then the trouble of dealing with self-signed certificates in nearly all scenarios.
OK, solved the problem by setting an http handler using set_http_handler().
Thanks
I have developed a Django application and now want to make sure the POST data transmitted through the page is safe.
I have couple of questions about this?
I see SSL certificates being displayed on many webpages. How do I get this certificate?
Do I need to change anything on my submitted form to encrypt the data or should I change any settings on my webserver?
I know its a general question but it would be great if someone provides a good answer.
First off, the POST data transmitted through the page is never safe from an application perspective. You don't have control over the user of the website. SSL and HTTPS helps prevent man in the middle attacks to ensure the request from the client (browser) to your server is encrypted. The underlying data that is sent can be malicious, so you should always validate inputs.
Secondly, if you want to use HTTPS and SSL, which I highly recommend, you'll need to obtain a certificate from one of the providers out there and install it with your webserver, which I presume is apache. Typically your domain provider can help you with obtaining an SSL certificate for your domain from one of the main certificate authorities. Regarding the installation and setup, there is tons of information about this online as it's a common task. I'm not familiar with Apache configuration to provide any specific recommendations. You'll also want to have rewrite rules so that your site can only be accessed via HTTPS and if someone tries to use HTTP, it simply redirects to HTTPS.
Lastly, you don't need to do anything in your Django application as your webserver should handle the basic interactions between your server and client to validate the HTTPS requests.
I am configuring our API Manager, but running into troubles authenticating via OAuth, seems to be an issue with the API Key Manager. I haven't dug into it yet, but does this come with the API Manager (as I have assumed) or is this a separate installation?
I had the same issue when using the wso2 api manager on a Amazon hosted machine, turn out that Thrift was not working correctly because some problem with multicasting and broadcasting.
What I did to get it working was to switch from ThriftClient to WSClient. If you have a huge amount of requests coming in then Thrift is the recommended solution from wso2 but in any "normal" case you will not have any differences between thrift and WS.
Here is how you switch:
Shut down the API Manager
Open up <api manager install dir>\repository\conf\api-manager.xml
Find ThriftClient
Change this to
<KeyValidatorClientType>WSClient</KeyValidatorClientType>
Start the API Manager
You may get some Warnings while starting up but, try it before you jump to the conclusion that it doesn't work.
Hope it helps!
you can use APIM manager product in a distributed setup as keymanger,gateway,store,publisher..but all functionality come in a single distribution.. ..
Go through the documentation for further guides
I was facing the same issue. Everything started when I created my own jks in order to use SSL without a self-signed certificate. I successfully created the jks and changed it in the carbon file. When I started the server, everything seemed ok; but when I used SOAPUI to test an API call, I got this (in the logs of the api manager):
APIAuthenticationHandler API authentication failure due to Unclassified Authentication Failure
I started digging what was the problem by enabling Debug level in the log4j.properties file, and then tried again a tested with SOAPUI and I got:
APISecurityException: Could not connect to <my api ip address> on port 10397
Then, I read the comment of OneMuppet and I checked that file and I found that the Thrift config has a host option, so I uncommented it:
<KeyValidatorClientType>ThriftClient</KeyValidatorClientType>
<ThriftClientPort>10397</ThriftClientPort>
<ThriftClientConnectionTimeOut>10000</ThriftClientConnectionTimeOut>
<ThriftServerPort>10397</ThriftServerPort>
This Line --> <ThriftServerHost>localhost</ThriftServerHost>
<EnableThriftServer>true</EnableThriftServer>
Save, restarted the server and everything start working correctly.
I got the same below issue after my installation, when i try to invoke the api service it is throwing below error:
900900 Unclassified Authentication Failure Error while accessing backend services for API key validation
After some random checks i have seen the axis2.xml file in /repository/conf/axis2 there it is refering a differnt ip's instead. I change these ip's to my local ip and restarted. The issue is resolved now.
I was facing the same issue. when I was trying to setup API Manager as an API Gateway in a different machine as per the steps given here,
https://docs.wso2.com/display/AM250/Publish+through+Multiple+API+Gateways
Once the setup is done and when I am trying to use this gateway URL, I was getting the below response,
{"fault":{"code":900900,"message":"Unclassified Authentication Failure","description":"Error while accessing backend services for API key validation"}}
After changing the KeyValidatorClientType value to WSClient from ThriftClient on the <api manager install dir>\repository\conf\api-manager.xml
It started working fine. And I was able to get the expected response.
If you changed the admin password, then you also have to update the repository/conf/api-manager.xml file with the new password. The 2 places I have changed (so far) are:
<AuthManager>
and
<APIKeyManager>
but there are other admin usernames in that file. No doubt, I'll get to them....
Hey all i seem to be having problems with calling my web service over SSL. Calling it from a non-ssl URL works just fine.
When trying to connect to the web service in VB.net it gives me this:
So i go ahead and choose the first option (10/7/2012 to 10/7/2013.
However when i do that i get this error in the web browser:
Going to the SSL website of mine (https://www.xxxxxxx.com) asks the same question (Select a Certificat) and then it shows the same browser error as it did in VB.net.
Is there something i need to include in the web.config file?
My IIS certificates look like this that i created:
Going to my normal website (http://www.xxxxxxx.com) works just fine.
What have i forgotten to do in order for it to work over SSL?
Most likly you've likley over-configured IIS (unless you really want to use SSL with client authentication as noted by Arun).
There is setting somewhere that says something "require client certificate:none/accept/require" which defaults to none for regular SSL. The only place you needed to add certificate is in site bindings...
Side note: http://serverfault.com could be better place...
You seem to be using SSL with client authentication .. Make sure you have added the CA certificate and the user certificate[that u choose in the prompt] to the user's list in the server before trying to access the website . I know how to do this in apache but not IIS but the concept is the same.