protractor node-libcurl Failed: SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK

Question

I am trying to use node-libcurl module in my protractor project but I am getting the error :

Failed: SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK

const  {curly} = require('node-libcurl')
const { data } = await curly.post('https://www.example.com', {
  postFields: JSON.stringify({"name":"rak"}),
  httpHeader: [
    'Content-Type: application/json',
    'Accept: application/json',
    'Access-Control-Allow-Origin : *'
  ],
})

How to get rid of this error .

Answer 1

From the COMMON_ISSUES.md file on the project's repository:

You need to set either CAINFO or CAPATH options, or disable SSL verification with SSL_VERIFYPEER (not recommended).

The certificate file can be obtained in multiple ways:

• Extracted directly from your system/browser

• Downloaded from https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html, which is based on the one from Firefox

• Creating a file with the contents of tls.rootCertificates, which was added with Node.js v12.3.0, example:

  const fs = require('fs')
  const path = require('path')
  const tls = require('tls')
  
  const { curly } = require('node-libcurl')
  
  // important steps
  const certFilePath = path.join(__dirname, 'cert.pem')
  const tlsData = tls.rootCertificates.join('\n')
  fs.writeFileSync(certFilePath, tlsData)
  
  async function run() {
    return curly.post('https://httpbin.org/anything', {
      postFields: JSON.stringify({ a: 'b' }),
      httpHeader: ['Content-type: application/json'],
      caInfo: certFilePath,
      verbose: true,
    })
  }
  
  run()
    .then(({ data, statusCode, headers }) =>
      console.log(
        require('util').inspect(
          {
            data: JSON.parse(data),
            statusCode,
            headers,
          },
          null,
          4,
        ),
      ),
    )
    .catch((error) => console.error(`Something went wrong`, { error }))