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blgrnboy
blgrnboy

Reputation: 5157

ASP.NET Core HttpClient can't make HTTPS calls in container

I am in the process of migrating an API from Windows .NET Full Framework (4.6.1) to ASP.NET Core.

I was able to spin up a container in our Rancher environment via the following Dockerfile:

root@a84db3bdc3cf:/app# cat Dockerfile
FROM microsoft/aspnetcore:1.1
ARG source=.
WORKDIR /app
EXPOSE 80
COPY $source .
ENTRYPOINT ["dotnet", "myapp.dll"]

I have noticed that anyone in my code that uses HttpClient that makes a call to a HTTPS url, the call fails.

The Message in the InnerException reads:

SSL connect error

Has anyone seen this, and if so, do you know if there is some extra configuration required for the container to be able to do HTTP operations via HTTPS? It seems to work fine with HTTP.

EDIT:

My application doesn't run over HTTPS. It is hosted over HTTP. The code in my application is trying to make a call to a remote API that is hosted over HTTPS, and has a valid certificate.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4208

Answers (2)

Andy Irving
Andy Irving

Reputation: 2697

.net core on linux uses curl to provide the implementation of HttpClient

you can test if that's working for you like this

docker run  microsoft/aspnetcore-build:2.0 curl https://server

and if it doesn't, try this to see if you have the same problem as I did:

docker run  microsoft/aspnetcore-build:2.0 curl -k https://server

For me, the problem was that part of the certificate chain was missing from the cert store for the site I was connecting to.

I modified the Dockerfile like so:

# build runtime image
FROM microsoft/aspnetcore:2.0
WORKDIR /app
COPY --from=build-env /app/out .

COPY missing-cert.crt /usr/share/ca-certificates
RUN echo missing-cert.crt >> /etc/ca-certificates.conf
RUN update-ca-certificates

ENTRYPOINT ["dotnet", "myaspdotnetapp.dll"]

And it works for me

Upvotes: 2

BRAHIM Kamel
BRAHIM Kamel

Reputation: 13755

I think you have to expose 443 instead of 80 as the 443 is the default port for Https 

root@a84db3bdc3cf:/app# cat Dockerfile
FROM microsoft/aspnetcore:1.1
ARG source=.
WORKDIR /app
EXPOSE 443
COPY $source .
ENTRYPOINT ["dotnet", "myapp.dll"]

But Note that you should be sure that your docker contains a certificate docker container ssl certificates

Upvotes: 1

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