On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > 2) My server only accepts https connections. I don't want them to have to > go to the trouble to install a self-signed certificate. Once again I'd > like for them to be able to do the npm install and then use it immediately > from their browser. Is there any way that npm could install a self-signed > certificate? The only person accessing this server will be the person who > installed it so it would be easy for them to provide an exception for the > certificate in their browser. Or is there a way I can run an https server > with no certificate? Encryption is all I need. >
If you're willing to require that the app's users have the openssl binary installed in their environments, you can generate the self-signed certificate using only a CA configuration file and some openssl commands. Here's an example: https://github.com/newrelic/node-newrelic/blob/master/Makefile#L78-L111(also the variables at the top) https://github.com/newrelic/node-newrelic/blob/master/test/lib/test-ca.conf You could probably turn this into a Node / grunt script, but it was a lot easier for me to hack together a Makefile. NB: it will be a lot easier to make the SSL stuff work if you instruct your users to connect to https://lvh.me or some other convenient alias for localhost that isn't 'localhost'. You could also just ship a certificate / CA bundle for https://myapp.lvh.me/and call it good. F -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
