On Oct 31, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Brad Chapman wrote:

> 
> Hi all;
> I ran into SSL certification errors when using Java to connect to Galaxy
> main via the API. My knowledge of this stuff is minimal, but I did some
> searching and discovered that the certificate chain on Galaxy main is a 
> problem:
> 
> https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=main.g2.bx.psu.edu
> 
> Looking at the chain with openssl shows a swap of the AddTrust and Internet2
> certificates:
> 
> $ openssl s_client -connect main.g2.bx.psu.edu:443
> CONNECTED(00000003)
> depth=2 C = SE, O = AddTrust AB, OU = AddTrust External TTP Network, CN = 
> AddTrust External CA Root
> verify error:num=19:self signed certificate in certificate chain
> verify return:0
> ---
> Certificate chain
> 0 s:/C=US/postalCode=16802/ST=PA/L=University Park/O=The Pennsylvania State 
> University/OU=Center for Comparative Genomics and 
> Bioinformatics/CN=bigsky.bx.psu.edu
>   i:/C=US/O=Internet2/OU=InCommon/CN=InCommon Server CA
> 1 s:/C=SE/O=AddTrust AB/OU=AddTrust External TTP Network/CN=AddTrust External 
> CA Root
>   i:/C=SE/O=AddTrust AB/OU=AddTrust External TTP Network/CN=AddTrust External 
> CA Root
> 2 s:/C=US/O=Internet2/OU=InCommon/CN=InCommon Server CA
>   i:/C=SE/O=AddTrust AB/OU=AddTrust External TTP Network/CN=AddTrust External 
> CA Root
> ---
> 
> As a result, more picky verification mechanisms fail because of the self
> signed certificate in the middle of the chain instead of as the root.
> 
> It appears you can fix this by adjusting the order of certificates
> in nginx:
> 
> http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/27842/how-to-prevent-ssl-certificate-chain-not-sorted/28074#28074
> http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html#chains
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Brad

Hi Brad,

Thanks for catching this.  It's been fixed.

--nate

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