Node.js + SSL support - ssl

Recent commits reference TLS progress. Any idea when it will be ready?
If not, what are the options for using SSL with a node app at the present time? Reverse proxy nginx? Is there a good tutorial available for using SSL with node?
Most professional apps need to support SSL these days and it would be great to be able to use node for these now.

Node.js 0.3.4 has been released.
Primordal mingw build (Bert Belder)
HTTPS server
Built in debugger 'node debug script.js'
realpath files during module load (Mihai Călin Bazon)
Rename net.Stream to net.Socket
Fix process.platform
Example
var https = require('https');
var fs = require('fs');
var options = {
key: fs.readFileSync('test/fixtures/keys/agent2-key.pem'),
cert: fs.readFileSync('test/fixtures/keys/agent2-cert.pem')
};
https.createServer(options, function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200);
res.end("hello world\n");
}).listen(8000);

Node 3.x is not supposed to be used in production, it's unstable, bleeding edge development. 2.6 still has the old SSL implementation, which works.
If you want to know when all the stuff gets finished, your best bet is to either ask on the Google Group, or Ryan on Twitter.

Just for reference ... here's a JavaScript implementation of SSL/TLS:
https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge
At the moment, it is only a client-side implementation. It would need to be expanded to cover server-side. For someone with a little knowledge about how TLS works, however, it shouldn't be too difficult to add to the existing framework.

From my experience node 0.2 SSL support is very flacky and unreliable.
We use nginx as a proxy.

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Cannot setup service worker with self-signed cert and webpack dev server

I'm new to Progressive Web Apps, and I'm adding a Service Worker to my app for the very first time. It's a simple Service Worker, with my goal being purely to test that it is being registered properly. The file is serviceWorker.js:
console.log('Hello Service Worker');
I'm adding this to an application that I'm running with the Webpack Dev Server. I'm using a self-signed certificate locally with it. I setup the Service Worker in my index.tsx (React Typescript) like this:
if ('serviceWorker' in navigator) {
navigator.serviceWorker
.register('/service-worker.js')
.then(() => console.log('Worker registered'))
.catch((ex) => console.error('Worker registration error', ex));
}
However, when I start the dev server and go to the app, I get an error:
Failed to register a ServiceWorker for scope ('https://localhost:3000/') with script ('https://localhost:3000/service-worker.js'): An SSL certificate error occurred when fetching the script.
The URL, https://localhost:3000/service-worker.js, does indeed work, the browser is just blocking it because of the self-signed piece of the cert.
I'm using Chrome Browser on on M1 Pro MacBook running MacOS Monterey, with Webpack 5.
For the record, I'm aware of plugins like Workbox, I would prefer not to use them at this time because I'm still very new to Service Workers. I believe in working with the low-level constructs when starting with a new tech to understand them better before embracing easier abstractions.
I'm not aware of any features—including service workers—that require HTTPS on localhost.
localhost, and equivalent IP address ranges, are specifically excluded from HTTPS requirements by Chromium-based browsers, and both Firefox and Safari follow that, at least when it comes to service workers.
So I would suggest that you just access your web site via http://localhost:3000 instead.
There are more details in this older answer.

How to solve flutter web api cors error only with dart code?

It seems like CORS error is well-known issue in the web field. But I tried flutter web for the first time ever and I faced critical error.
The code below worked well in app version when it was running on iOS device, but when i tested the same code on Chrome with web debugging from beta channel, it encountered CORS error.
Other stackoverflow answers explained how to solve the CORS issue with serverside files of their projects. But I have totally no idea what is server thing and how to deal with their answers. The error message from Chrome console was below
[ Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://kapi.kakao.com/v1/payment/ready' from origin 'http://localhost:52700' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. ]
So, what i want to do is to solve above 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin header' issue ONLY WITH DART CODE! Code below is what i've tried to solve these issues only with my main.dart.
onPressed: () async {
var res =
await http.post('https://kapi.kakao.com/v1/payment/ready', encoding: Encoding.getByName('utf8'), headers: {
'Authorization': 'KakaoAK $_ADMIN_KEY',
HttpHeaders.authorizationHeader: 'KakaoAK $_ADMIN_KEY',
"Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*",
"Access-Control-Allow-Methods": "POST, GET, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE, HEAD",
}, body: {
'cid': 'TC0ONETIME',
'partner_order_id': 'partner_order_id',
'partner_user_id': 'partner_user_id',
'item_name': 'cool_beer',
'quantity': '1',
'total_amount': '22222',
'vat_amount': '2222',
'tax_free_amount': '0',
'approval_url': '$_URL/kakaopayment',
'fail_url': '$_URL/kakaopayment',
'cancel_url': '$_URL/kakaopayment'
});
Map<String, dynamic> result = json.decode(res.body);
print(result);
},
Even though i actually had the header "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*" which most other answers recommended, the Chrome console printed same error message. Weird thing is that the same code made successful request in mobileApp version. So I think this is only problem with flutter WEB VERSION.
Hope somebody can figure it out and suggest only-dart code to resolve the issue in my main.dart!! Thank you for reading [:
1- Go to flutter\bin\cache and remove a file named: flutter_tools.stamp
2- Go to flutter\packages\flutter_tools\lib\src\web and open the file chrome.dart.
3- Find '--disable-extensions'
4- Add '--disable-web-security'
Since Flutter 3.3.0
I implemented the option to add any browser flag to the flutter command.
flutter run -d chrome --web-browser-flag "--disable-web-security"
Or for drive command:
flutter drive --driver=test_driver/integration_test.dart --target=integration_test/app_test.dart -d web-server --web-browser-flag="--disable-web-security"
Note: This is just for development and testing. Flutter is executed explicitly on the client's browser! You should NOT and you can NOT disable it in production (as stated by #Tommy), as it is a security feature of the browser, and not meant to be changed in dart code. You have to enable CORS on your web server, which is providing the resources of your Flutter app, to ensure it works for everyone.
If you use dart language without Flutter on the server side with shelf, then see this response.
I think disabling web security as suggested will make you jump over the current error for now but when you go for production or testing on other devices the problem will persist because it is just a workaround, the correct solution is from the server side to allow CORS from the requesting domain and allow the needed methods, and credentials if needed.
run/compile your Flutter web project using web-renderer. This should solve the issue both locally and remotely:
flutter run -d chrome --web-renderer html
flutter build web --web-renderer html
This is a CORS (cross-origin resource sharing) issue and you do not have to delete/modify anything. You just have to enable the CORS request from your server-side and it will work fine.
In my case, I have created a server with node.js and express.js, so I just added this middleware function that will run for every request.
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "GET,PUT,PATCH,POST,DELETE");
res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept");
next();
});
And BOOOOM! I received the data.
You just have to look at the settings to enable CORS for your server.
Server side engine like node js or django is really needed to work with flutter web with bunch of external apis. Actually there's high possibility of same CORS error when we try to use internal api because of the CORS mechanism related to port number difference.
There are bunch of steps and answers from SO contributors that recommend to use chrome extensions to avoid CORS errors, but that is actually not cool for users. All the users should download the browser extensions to use the single website from us, which wouldn't be there if we used true server engines.
CORS is from browser as far as i know, so our flutter ios and android apps with same api code don't give those CORS errors. First time i encountered this error with flutter web, i believed i can deal with CORS in my app code lines. But that is actually not healthy way for users and long term dev plans.
Hope all flutter web newbies understand that web is quite a wild field for us. Even though i'm also newbie here, i highly recommend all the flutter web devs from 1.22.n stable to learn server side engines like node js. It is worth try.
And if u came so far down to this line of my self-answer, here's a simple guide for flutter web with node js. Flutter web is on stable channel but all those necessary infra are not fully ready for newbies like me. So be careful when you first dive into web field, and hope you re-check all the conditions and requirements to find out if you really need web version of your flutter app, and also if you really need to do this work with flutter. And my answer was yes lol
https://blog.logrocket.com/flutter-web-app-node-js/
If you run a Spring Boot server, add "#CrossOrigin" to your Controller or to your service method.
#CrossOrigin
#PostMapping(path="/upload")
public #ResponseBody ResponseEntity<Void> upload(#RequestBody Object object) {
// ...
}
I know the question explicitly asked for a solution "with dart code" only, but I was not able to fix the exception with dart code (for example by changing the header).
The disabling web security approaches work well in development, but probably not so well in production. An approach that worked for me in production dart code involves avoiding the pre-flight CORS check entirely by keeping the web request simple. In my case this meant changing the request header to contain:
'Content-Type': 'text/plain'
Even though I'm actually sending json, setting it to text/plain avoids the pre-flight CORS check. The lambda function I'm calling didn't support pre-flight OPTIONS requests.
Here's some info on other ways to keep a request simple and avoid a pre-flight request
https://docs.flutter.dev/development/platform-integration/web-images
flutter run -d chrome --web-renderer html
flutter build web --web-renderer html
This official solution worked for me on Chrome only (Source). But I had to run it first every time.
flutter run -d chrome --web-renderer html
And disabling web security also worked (Source). But the browsers will show a warning banner.
But In case you are running on a different browser than Chrome (e.g. Edge) and you want to keep 'web security' enabled.
You can change the default web renderer in settings in VS Code
File ==> Preferences ==> Settings ==> Enter 'Flutter Web' in the Search Bar ==> Set the default web renderer to html
After hours of testing, the following works perfectly for me.
Add the following to the PHP file:
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST');
header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-Requested-With");
This allow the correct connection with the HTTP GET POST with no issue from flutter for me.
I discovered this in the following discussion:
XMLHttpRequest error Flutter
I am getting the same error with php api so i add the php code these lines ;
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST');
header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-Requested-With");
I think you may not doing this in right way.
The cors headers should be added in HTTP response header while you added them in you reuqest header obviously.
for more information check out the documentation https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS#what_requests_use_cors
The below solution is great if you are only communicating with a local NodeJS server.
Install NodeJS
Create a basic NodeJS express project
Create a folder to put you NodeJS project in
ex: C:\node_project\
in PowerShell run: npm init in the folder
fill in your desired values
entry point: must be app.js for this example to work
in PowerShell run: npm install express in the folder
create a app.js file in the folder
// init express
const express = require("express");
const app = express();
// set the path to the web build folder
app.use(express.static("C:/Users/your_username/path_to_flutter_app/build/web"));
const PORT = process.env.PORT || 8080;
app.listen(PORT, () => {
console.log(`Server listening on port ${PORT}...`);
});
The value "C:/Users/your_username/path_to_flutter_app/build/web" must be changed to the web build folder in your flutter app.
The app can be accessed through your browser once the app is built, the node server is running, and the browser is at the correct address
Build the app
open PowerShell and navigate to the flutter project's root ex: C:/Users/your_username/path_to_flutter_app/
run flutter build web
turn on the node server
open PowerShell and navigate to the NodeJS server folder ex: C:\node_project\
run: node app.js
Open in your browser
Enter http://localhost:8080/ into the browser
Note that everytime you change your flutter app's dart code you will need to re-run flutter build web
Wrong Server on Target Port 🤦
I feel silly for even admitting this, but I had some other local server running on the targeted port. I've no clue why the server seemed to boot on the same port, or why the iOS app seemed to work, but now that I'm hitting the actual server it's working fine.
I was also getting some 404's mixed in, but originally thought that was due to the CORs error.
Maybe someone else has this same issue and this helps them.
In my case, The problem was in laravel backend code which did not support CORS, So I added the CORS into backend project then it worked successfully in test and live.
The 5th step of Osmans answer should be to add the option
'--disable-site-isolation-trials',
Only this works for me.
Chrome version 106.0.5249.119
Update:
I recommend to use User Rebo's answer. It is now possible to pass --disable-web-security as a browser flag to run & drive commands!
Original outdated answer:
Alternative solution for MacOS & Android Studio (without modifying Flutter source)
We use a similar approach as Osman Tuzcu. Instead of modifying the Flutter source code, we add the --disable-web-security argument in a shell script and just forward all other arguments that were set by Flutter. It might look overly complicated but it takes just a minute and there is no need to repeat it for every Flutter version.
1. Run this in your terminal
echo '#!/bin/zsh
# See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/31150244/410996
trap "trap - SIGTERM && kill -- -$$" SIGINT SIGTERM EXIT
set -e ; /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --test-type --disable-web-security "$#" ; set +e &
PID=$!
wait $PID
trap - SIGINT SIGTERM EXIT
wait $PID
' > ~/chrome_launcher
chmod 755 ~/chrome_launcher
This adds a chrome_launcher script to your user folder and marks it executable.
2. Add this line to your .zshrc (or .bashrc etc.):
export CHROME_EXECUTABLE=~/chrome_launcher
3. Restart Android Studio
If a simple restart does not work, use Invalidate Caches / Restart in Android Studio to force loading of changes.
Notes
The script also adds the --test-type flag to suppress the ugly warning about the disabled security features. Be aware that this option might also suppress other error messages!
The CHROME_EXECUTABLE takes only the path to an executable file it is not possible to set arguments there.
Without trapping exit signals and killing the process group, the Google Chrome instance was not killed when you hit the Stop Button in Android Studio.
If you are using FVM, I suggest to use flutter_cors package
dart pub global activate flutter_cors
fluttercors --disable
If you face
zsh: command not found: fluttercors
You need to add it to PATH. In my case, I'm using zsh, I add it to .zshrc by
vim ~/.zshrc
Press I to start editing and paste export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME/.pub-cache/bin" to the top of the file
Then press ESC and type :wq to save the .zshrc file.
Now you're good to go
Now, just need to run your flutter web normally. It will trigger Chrome without CORS.
For me none of the solutions above worked on production as it was expected. Altough there is one solution I can suggest which uses CORS proxy to avoid CORS issues on flutter web on production. You can find CORS proxies on this website.
Basically you bypass all the unnecessary headers which your browser appends to your requests, so you may not encounter the same CORS issues when making request to another API. Hope it helps!
It Worked With Me By The Following Code :
in conn.php file put like this :
<?php
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST');
header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-Requested-With");
$connect = new mysqli("localhost","db_user","db_password","db_name");
if($connect){
}else{
echo "Connection Failed";
exit();
}
This is a CORS (cross-origin resource sharing) issue and you just need to enable the CORS request from your server-side.
In my case it is Asp.Net MVC Web API and adding below code to Application_BeginRequest at Global.asax worked for me:
HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "http://localhost:7777/");
if (HttpContext.Current.Request.HttpMethod == "OPTIONS")
{
//These headers are handling the "pre-flight" OPTIONS call sent by the browser
HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "POST, GET");
HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "content-type");
HttpContext.Current.Response.End();
}
Use desired urls , Methods and Headers
Also There is no need to change anything in Web.config
If anyone looking for an equivalent of the accepted answer (Osman's) when working with dart web (webdev), here's what worked for me on Dart 2.17.6 (a bit more complex but in case you needed a quick fix, it might be handful).
Find webdev executable (this helps) then you see something like this:
The snapshot file (generated if not exist, as you see) is executed when you want to run app in browser. It contains the code that dart runs when launching chrome (using browser_launcher dart package).
Backup and remove the snapshot file (location in the screenshot above) so it can be regenerated in next run.
Locate browser_launcher package in your pub cache (also you might find location of browser_launcher by searching in the snapshot file) and edit lib\src\chrome.dart, find '--disable-extensions' and add '--disable-web-security'.
Run your app and remove the backup created in step 2.
If you are working with django in the side of the service, you can configure CORS with 'corsheaders', in this link you can find whole the documentation to setup your back end and recognice your requests.
https://pypi.org/project/django-cors-headers/
Go to flutter\bin\cache and remove a file named: flutter_tools.stamp
Go to flutter\packages\flutter_tools\lib\src\web and open the file chrome.dart.
Find '--disable-extensions'
Add '--disable-web-security'

How do make an SSL Connection from a Kong serverless function using a client certificate

I'm trying to create a serverless function for Kong for authentication purposes. I'm required to use a client certificate to authenticate with the remote service that we have to use. I can't seem to get this working and there appears to be no clear documentation on how to do this. I've tried pintsized/lua-resty-http, ngx.socket.tcp(), and luacurl (failed to build) without success. I'm using the newest version of Kong in an Alpine Linux container in case that matters.
What is the best way to do this? Right now I'm considering simply calling curl from within Lua as I know that works, but I was hoping for a better solution that I can do with just Lua/OpenResty.
Thanks.
UPDATE: I just wanted to add, just in case it helps, that I'm already building a new image based on the official Kong one as I had to modify the nginx configuration templates, so installing new software into the container is not an issue.
All,
Apologies for the ugly code, but it looks like a found an answer that works:
require("socket")
local currUrl= "https://some.url/"
local https = require("ssl.https")
local ltn12 = require("ltn12")
local chunks = {}
local body, code, headers, status = https.request{
mode = "client",
url = currUrl,
protocol = "tlsv1_2",
certificate = "/certs/bundle.crt",
key = "/certs/bundle.key",
verify = "none",
sink = ltn12.sink.table(chunks),
}
If someone has a better answer, I'd appreciate it, but it's hard to complain about this one. The main issue is that while this works for a GET request, I'll be wanting to do POSTs to a service in a future and I have no idea how to do it using similar code. I'd like one libary/API that can do any type of REST request.
This blog got me on the right track: http://notebook.kulchenko.com/programming/https-ssl-calls-with-lua-and-luasec

SSL meteor Not Working.. Stuck in Spinner (loads nav bar and sidebar but nothing else)

I've been having an issue for days and I don't know how to fix it.
I am trying to setup my SSL certificate, and for some reason the site works on http, and then when I try to load https, it loads only the navbar and sidebar, and then it's stuck on the spinner.
When I examine at the network connections on chrome, it keeps trying to load xhr and websockets.
In safari I get this error in the console
WebSocket connection to 'wss://mysite/sockjs/530/72iokiqa/websocket' failed: WebSocket is closed before the connection is established
I am trying to set the headers, in particular the x-forwarded-proto header, but I can't figure out how to do that.
I am using mup.
// Configure environment
"env": {
"ROOT_URL": "https://inslim.com"
},
"ssl": {
"pem": "./ssl.pem"
}
For some reason, when I try to add a por to the env variable, it won't allow me to do mup deploy. It will break and the site will go down.
I am also confused with nginx. I installed it and I set it up, but I don't think it's making any difference. If I run 'service nginx stop' or service nginx start, it doesn't make any difference.
Can someone help me? Any advice or anything would help. Or if you need any other info please let me know.
Here's a screenshot of my spinner of death
The ssl part of your configuration JSON looks fine, but your env part needs a little modification. The env part of the configuration JSON should at least look something like this:
"env": {
"PORT": 80, // Defaults to 80, but could be different if app is configured differently
"ROOT_URL": "http://inslim.com"
}
If you do not have the force-ssl package already added to your application, I would suggest adding that (don't worry, it is a core Meteor package). If you do not also have the spiderable package added to your application, then your ROOT_URL element in your JSON can remain prefixed with http, but if you do have the spiderable package added to your application, you will need to change that ROOT_URL element prefix in your JSON to be https. All of this information is per the documentation for Meteor Up, which can be found here. Also, I can confirm that this setup with the JSON works because I have a production application that is running with this exact setup without any issues.

Meteor error: failed: WebSocket is closed before the connection is established

I have been at this for days and I can't seem to find the solution for this. I have a live website, and I recently installed the ssl certificate and made the website available on https.
What's really strange is that at first the website worked well on https. For about a day or so it was live and working well. But then the next day I checked and the site is now giving me this error:
WebSocket connection to 'wss://domain.com/sockjs/421/dto72qfy/websocket' failed: WebSocket is closed before the connection is established.
The navigation bar loads and the sidebar loads, but the content doesn't, it's just stuck in the 'loading' template. If I check the domain in http the website is working fine.
I am using meteor up (mup) to upload the site and digital ocean. One of the few things I have changed was the mup.json
...
// Configure environment
"env": {
"ROOT_URL": "https://website.com/"
//"PORT": 80
},
"ssl": {
"pem": "./ssl.pem"
//"backendPort": 80
},
...
I'm not sure how to deal with websockets and why they only have problems in https. If anyone has gotten their meteor app to work with mup and ssh I would really appreciate some help.
You can disable websockets by adding the following environmental variable in your mup.json
"DISABLE_WEBSOCKETS"=1
If you don't want to disable websockets, you can try option 2 from here.
We have websockets disabled on https://saturnapi.com; you can see yourself if it is usable. Others have also reported that disabling websockets still allow for a usable app, albeit a bit slower. It should depend on how your app is configured, so I recommend giving it a try and reverting to the other solutions if it doesn't work.