My node.js https client always works regardless of certificate validity

Question

This test program connects to an https server and gets some content. I\'ve checked my server in browsers and with curl and the certificate is working correctly. If I run cur

Answer 1

In order to make this work I needed to upgrade to v0.7.8 (although any v0.7 should be fine) where the rejectUnauthorized functionality has been added to https.get

This combination of options is needed:

agent: false, // or you can supply your own agent, but if you don't you must set to false
rejectUnauthorized: true, 
ca: [ fs.readFileSync('https_simple/cacert.pem') ]

Now if the authentication fails you will get an 'error' event and the request will not go ahead.

See the https.request documentation for details on making your own Agent

The bug fix was committed in this change: https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/f8c335d0