jkbbwr

jkbbwr

Cannot manage to get MTLS working with elixir

I am able to do MTLS connections to a given service using curl and httpie. That works fine.

An example of a working httpie command http post --cert=./cert.pem --cert-key=./cert.key <url>
The key is passphrase protected, but I have tried using an unprotected one in Req/elixir and no dice.

But as soon as I try to replicate that in elixir using Req I get errors from the service saying that there is no client certificate being used.

I have tried using certfile and keyfile and password but nothing seems to work and there is remarkably no documentation about this.

I could swear I had it working before but I cannot for the life of me get it working now.

I appreciate this will be reasonably tricky to identify as I cannot obviously share the keys. But I would love any help, I am going slowly insane.

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adw632

adw632

Req uses Finch as its default adapter and Finch uses Mint (which allows all of the Erlang :gen_tcp and :ssl socket options to be passed).

So looking at the Req run_finch/1 documentation we see :connect_options which contains :transport_opts which defers to Mint for the details.

The mutual TLS options for Mint was answered here as not all options are covered in the Mint documentation, only the ones they alter the semantics of.

So your code will be something like:

Req.post!(url, json: payload, connect_options: [transport_opts: [cacerts: :public_key.cacerts_get(), certfile: ~c"client.pem", password: secret_charlist]])

Note that Erlang needs charlists passed.

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