nodejs - error self signed certificate in certificate chain

Question

I am facing a problem with client side https requests.

A snippet can look like this:

var fs = require(\'fs\');
var https = require(\'https\');

var o         


        

Answer 1

Turning off verification is quite a dangerous thing to do. Much better to verify the certificate.

You can pull the Certificate Authority certificate into the request with the ca key of the options object, like this:

let opts = {
    method: 'GET',
    hostname: "localhost",
    port: listener.address().port,
    path: '/',
    ca: await fs.promises.readFile("cacert.pem")
  };

https.request(opts, (response) => { }).end();

I put a whole demo together of this so you can see how to construct SSL tests.

It's here.