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renal boby
renal boby

Reputation: 21

c++ rest sdk https server implemention (Windows)

I have dabbled with the c++ rest sdk for a while now and got around making a server and client fully.

The problem is that http requests from the client to the server seem to always be plaintext so when i want to try logging in,

the URI is http://... [email protected]&password=123456 I am new to network programming but this doesn't seem very secure and from what i understand https is the way to go... so far no info though as to how to setup a http over SSL server with casablanca c++ rest sdk.

Has anyone here tried to do this? maybe i need an additional library for this specifically?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5926

Answers (2)

Pooja Kuntal
Pooja Kuntal

Reputation: 471

casablanca support HTTPS on the client side with http_client on ALL platforms, it is only with the http_listener that HTTPS works on Windows only. To use https simply specify the scheme of the URI when constructing the http_client or http_listener object to be https, for example 'https://www.google.com'. and add ssl certificate to listening port.

Upvotes: 2

Michael
Michael

Reputation: 358

This is what I see in the http_listener code. It doesn't appear to support Windows at all.

#ifndef _WIN32
    /// <summary>
    /// Get the callback of ssl context
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns>The function defined by the user of http_listener_config to configure a ssl context.</returns>
    const std::function<void(boost::asio::ssl::context&)>& get_ssl_context_callback() const
    {
        return m_ssl_context_callback;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Set the callback of ssl context
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="ssl_context_callback">The function to configure a ssl context which will setup https connections.</param>
    void set_ssl_context_callback(const std::function<void(boost::asio::ssl::context&)> &ssl_context_callback)
    {
        m_ssl_context_callback = ssl_context_callback;
    }
#endif

Upvotes: 1

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