Thanks for your input again. i gave that a try earlier today and it works without a hitch.
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Ben Noordhuis <i...@bnoordhuis.nl> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:26 PM, ming <hseum...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > Thank you for the reply. i've a few questions about your reply: > > > > > >> When you pass a CA certificate/chain with the 'ca' option, node.js > >> won't load any root certificates, just the certificate/chain that you > >> specified. > > > > Why do i need to add the cert of the well known CA (say VeriSign) that > signs > > my server's cert? When clients (real humans or applications) visit my > > site say via HTTPS or SPDY at > > https://foo.bar.com/.... > > it's the responsibility of the client's browser or application to know of > > the well known CA's cert for the SSL/TLS handshake, right? > > > > My private CA is only responsible for the client-side cert authentication > > since the cert for my server, namely foo.bar.com, is no longer signed > by my > > private CA. Am i missing some detail here? > > Sorry, I must have misunderstood that part. If you're only using the > CA for client certificate verification, then yes, changing the > server's key and certificate to something signed by a well-known CA is > no problem. > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/nodejs/3bJvZnXvOEY/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
