[SailfishDevel] [Not TLS] How to use self-signed certificates transparently in a https POST/GET request with a QT Quick application?

[Peter Kovacs]

To be honest. I would open an ssh tunnel.
That is all you need for encryption and authentification. As soon as the
tunnel exist you can stream the data without the bloat of http.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5589971/how-to-easily-establish-an-ssh-connection-in-qt

I think ssh lib is also available on jolla...

All the Best
Peter
The Lord of noobs

juice <juice at swagman.org> schrieb am Do., 20. Aug. 2015 18:47:

> Oleksii Serdiuk kirjoitti 2015-08-20 16:34:
> > Hi Juice,
> >
> > As far as I understand, you have a control to install HTTPS
> > certificates on the server where the requests are sent?
> >
> >
> > In this case, you have two options:
> >
> >   1. Install a trusted SSL certificate on your server.
> >
> >   2. Generate your own self-signed certificate and mark it as
> >      trusted in your application.
> >
>
>
> Hi Oleksii, and thanks for your comments!
>
> Unfortunately the use case of my application is such that likely
> neither of the options is possible.
>
> It is necessary for each user of the application to host her own server
> or at least the service where the application data is gathered.
> (The server end that I am using is a small node.js application that
>   collects the location data and gives it to the application when it
>   requests location data)
>
> So if certificates need to be used, then there would be need for some
> kind of certificate lifecycle management in the application, so that
> each user could install her own certificates to match the certificate
> of the server end.
>
>
> --
>     - Juice -
>
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