I have a certificate and key, and I'm looking to serve my pages over https. How do I configure nodejs/expressjs to do so?
I'm explicitly looking to do this through the expressjs library.
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4http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.1/api/https.html ?? – Shoban Feb 25 '11 at 18:17
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possible duplicate of [Create HTTPS client in NodeJS](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4940646/create-https-client-in-nodejs) – Shoban Feb 25 '11 at 18:25
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@Shoban the linked question uses nodejs as a client, not a server. – blueberryfields Feb 25 '11 at 18:43
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@Shoban I'm looking for the equivalent to that, in expressjs. Maybe expressjs doesn't implement a https server yet? – blueberryfields Feb 25 '11 at 18:45
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if you use 0.2.4. you can use
var express = require('express');
var fs = require("fs");
var crypto = require('crypto');
var app = express.createServer();
var privateKey = fs.readFileSync('privatekey.pem').toString();
var certificate = fs.readFileSync('certificate.pem').toString();
var credentials = crypto.createCredentials({key: privateKey, cert: certificate});
app.setSecure(credentials);
but this not possible if you use node 0.4, as you can't call setSecure() to convert a server as SSL. One must create an instance of https.Server.
i don't know if there are any future plan to support this
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express now supporting creating an HTTPS server var app = require('express').createServer({ key: ... }); – amira Mar 20 '11 at 06:53