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

I do this in npm, using the request module. It goes like this:

var cacert = ... // in npm, this is a config setting
var request = require("request")
request.get({ url: "https://...",
              ca: cacert,
              strictSSL: true })
  .on("response", function (resp) { ... })
  .on("error", function (er) { ... })

The error event will be raised if the ssl isn't valid.