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GeneralBear
GeneralBear

Reputation: 1021

Keep getting error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line

Going crazy trying to solve error on Node.js while trying to contact Xero API.

I've used a bunch of combinations of '.cer' and '.crt' and '.pem'.

I've followed the advice of a number of StackOverflow posters.

Node.js https pem error: error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line

Error: error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line
    at Error (native)
    at Sign.sign (crypto.js:327:26)
    at Xero.oa._createSignature (/Users/BeardedMac/projects/clause/clause-mean-stack/node_modules/xero/index.js:19:68)
    at exports.OAuth._getSignature (/Users/BeardedMac/projects/clause/clause-mean-stack/node_modules/xero/node_modules/oauth/lib/oauth.js:90:15)
    at exports.OAuth._prepareParameters (/Users/BeardedMac/projects/clause/clause-mean-stack/node_modules/xero/node_modules/oauth/lib/oauth.js:300:16)
    at exports.OAuth._performSecureRequest (/Users/BeardedMac/projects/clause/clause-mean-stack/node_modules/xero/node_modules/oauth/lib/oauth.js:309:31)
    at Xero.call (/Users/BeardedMac/projects/clause/clause-mean-stack/node_modules/xero/index.js:51:20)
    at /Users/BeardedMac/projects/clause/clause-mean-stack/routes/external.js:47:10
    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/Users/BeardedMac/projects/clause/clause-mean-stack/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
    at next (/Users/BeardedMac/projects/clause/clause-mean-stack/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:131:13)
    at Route.dispatch (/Users/BeardedMac/projects/clause/clause-mean-stack/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:112:3)
    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/Users/BeardedMac/projects/clause/clause-mean-stack/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
    at /Users/BeardedMac/projects/clause/clause-mean-stack/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:277:22
    at Function.process_params (/Users/BeardedMac/projects/clause/clause-mean-stack/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:330:12)
    at next (/Users/BeardedMac/projects/clause/clause-mean-stack/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:271:10)
    at expressInit (/Users/BeardedMac/projects/clause/clause-mean-stack/node_modules/express/lib/middleware/init.js:33:5)

Anyone out there have some insight?

The Xero API says it wants an X509 certificate...I'm not even making the call though.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 17727

Answers (2)

nanz
nanz

Reputation: 1

Check your certificate format. Carriage return(\r) and new line(\n) should be there in the .cer or .crt format. Postman expects this. This can be verified by opening it in notepad.

Upvotes: -1

mscdex
mscdex

Reputation: 106736

You need a PEM-encoded key as the xero module merely calls out to node's built-in crypto module to sign some data. Those types of keys start with

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

and end with

-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

with base64-encoded data in between.

You can generate such a key using the openssl command-line utility:

openssl genrsa -out privateKey.pem 2048

Then read privateKey.pem in node like:

var fs = require('fs');
var privateKey = fs.readFileSync('/path/to/privateKey.pem');

// pass `privateKey` as the RSA private key to the `xero` module ...

Upvotes: 5

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