How to use soap client over HTTPS with a self-signed certificate?

[Eric]

Hi Guys,

My node.js app needs to tal with a webservice using soap over HTTPS connection but using his own SSL certificate (self-signed certificate). In other languages like java all I need to do is import the PEM file into the JRE keystore to make it trusted, and when the soap clients communicate with the webservice everything goes fine.

I can't seem to figure out however how should I do this in node.js. Where is the keystore used by node.js?

Thanks for any help,

Eric

[Ben Noordhuis]

Take a look at the documentation for https.request() and
tls.connect(). You pass the certificate in an options object, e.g.

var options = url.parse('https://example.com/');
options.cert = fs.readFileSync('example.pem');
var req = https.request(options, cb);

[Bernardo Vieira]

Don't forget to specify an agent of explicitly set agent = false. If you don't the global agent will be used and your certificate will be ignored. There's a note about that behavior in http://nodejs.org/api/https.html#https_https_request_options_callback but I recently overlooked that and it took me a while to figure out what was going wrong.

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