How do you resolve a certificate issue?
To do this, follow these steps:
- In Windows Internet Explorer, click Continue to this website (not recommended).
- Click the Certificate Error button to open the information window.
- Click View Certificates, and then click Install Certificate.
- On the warning message that appears, click Yes to install the certificate.
How do you handle SSL validation error?
To properly handle SSL certificate validation, change your code in the checkServerTrusted method of your custom X509TrustManager interface to raise either CertificateException or IllegalArgumentException whenever the certificate presented by the server does not meet your expectations.
What do you need to know about client certificate authentication?
Client Certificate Authentication is a mutual certificate based authentication, where the client provides its Client Certificate to the Server to prove its identity. This happens as a part of the SSL Handshake (it is optional). Before we proceed further, we need to understand What is a client certificate?
What happens if certificate authentication fails in ASP.NET?
If authentication fails, this handler returns a 403 (Forbidden) response rather a 401 (Unauthorized), as you might expect. The reasoning is that the authentication should happen during the initial TLS connection.
How to enable client certificate authentication in azure?
We previously discussed how to use certificates in Azure Web Apps to perform things like outbound client certificate authentication but you didn’t have the ability to enable in-bound client certificate authentication (TLS mutual authentication) to your Azure Web App.
How to use ihttpclientfactory with certificate authentication?
The IHttpClientFactory can then be used to get the named instance with the handler and the certificate. The CreateClient method with the name of the client defined in the Startup class is used to get the instance. The HTTP request can be sent using the client as required.