Request rest API with a Certificate

[rsilvestre]

Hi Guys,

It's more a question than an issue, but like a face some difficulties to use certificate, i'd like to ask you how it's possible to use certificate to perform a rest request on a https server?

I'm working on the branch v0.1.0-waterline-v0.10 ?

May be you could just give me an example?

Regards

[zohararad]

@rsilvestre Do you mean client-side certificates? If not those, what exactly do you mean? I you provide an example? Issuing a normal HTTPS request doesn't require any particular setup.

[rsilvestre]

Hi @zohararad, In the client side i have this config in the connections.js file and i try to connect on a server and i need to authenticate with a certificate :

/**
   * To contact API
   */
  listRest: {
    adapter: 'sails-rest',
    type: 'json',                   // expected response type (json | string | http)
    host: 'api.example.com',  // api host
    port: 443,                       // api port
    protocol: 'https',               // HTTP protocol (http | https)
    pathname: '/api/v1.1/public/',            // base api path
    resource: 'user',              // resource path to use (overrides model name)
    action: null,                   // action to use for the given resource ([resource]/run)
    query: function (config, collectionName, methodName, options) {

      var newOptions = {};

      if ( options.where.name ) {
        newOptions.name = options.where.name;
      }

      if ( options.limit ) {
        newOptions.itemsPerPage = options.limit;
      }

      // dont forget to pass on skip because this function is responsible for generating all the parameters
      newOptions.skip = options.skip;

      return newOptions;

    },
    headers: {
      'Accept-Language': 'fr'
    },
    methods: {                      // overrides default HTTP methods used for each CRUD action
      //create: 'post',
      find: 'get',
      //update: 'put',
      //destroy: 'del'
    }
  }

I'd like to add a certificate like that :

key: fs.readFileSync('./cert/private.key'),
cert: fs.readFileSync('./cert/certificate.crt'),

[zohararad]

@rsilvestre I see.

I'm not sure superagent (the underlying HTTP client) supports that officially. Let me take a look, but feel free to dig around yourself.