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OpenSSL for windows
« on: February 21, 2020, 07:35:27 pm »
Hi everyone, I made a small web application with the standard components of lazarus. Everything works fine on mac os and ubuntu. But on windows if i enable https crashes the program. Obviously because the right dll for openssl is missing. How can I find out which version I should use? And where do I get it from?
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Re: OpenSSL for windows
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2020, 09:17:30 pm »
I made a small web application with the standard components of lazarus.

Which components exactly are you using?  Please be more specific.

But on windows if i enable https crashes the program.

Crashes in what way exactly?  What is the actual error message?

Obviously because the right dll for openssl is missing.

There is nothing obvious about this.  What makes you think OpenSSL is even being used?  And even if it were, what makes you think this is an OpenSSL issue?

How can I find out which version I should use? And where do I get it from?

Hard to answer without knowing exactly what you are doing to begin with.  Please provide more details, code snippets, etc.
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Re: OpenSSL for windows
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2020, 10:12:24 pm »
And your openssl version and the protocol, because modern connections will fail on e.g. ssl2 or ssl3 or tls 1.0 (these are all deprecated and removed from recent openssl binaries)
Specialize a type, not a var.

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Re: OpenSSL for windows
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2020, 01:41:28 am »
See the Windows code which does not require openssl for https at: https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,48423.msg348738.html#msg348738

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Re: OpenSSL for windows
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2020, 09:55:07 am »
But precisely I have three different programs that run on linux and make use of the https protocol

1. HTTP Server application with UseSSL active

2. Application with last synapse trunk version (http://svn.code.sf.net/p/synalist/code/trunk/) 209  release

3. Application with Google API package (This is still to be tested if it works on windows. But since the other two don't work, this shouldn't be either.)

Need anything else?
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Re: OpenSSL for windows
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2020, 07:32:13 pm »
Little example when reproduce error

Exception at 0041DC5C: EFCreateError:
Unable to create file "C:\temp\x509.txt".
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Re: OpenSSL for windows
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2020, 04:56:14 pm »
By making a few attempts I understood the following. On windows you need to create the directory c:\temp\ by hand where openssl saves the certificates. Yes, my program doesn't crash anymore. The only thing I didn't understand is that the browser didn't show me the result I expected. While if I write a client in lazarus to read the url, it returns the data I wanted. So I would say that the https server is needed but browsers do not consider it secure. Which does not happen if the https server is on linux.
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Re: OpenSSL for windows
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2020, 11:37:37 am »
On windows you need to create the directory c:\temp\ by hand where openssl saves the certificates.
%) Why C:\Temp ??? Surely you can make OpenSSL create the certificates in another place...

Besides that... I don't see anything in TFPWebModule that has to do with openssl and the certificates.
So I think it's only meant for HTTP and doesn't do HTTPS.

And yes... directly querying via Lazarus will get you the page via HTTP (the port for HTTP doesn't matter... you can even do HTTP over port 443).

Real web-browsers however (depending on the browser) do expect a https handshake (on port 443) to do HTTPS and will give you the warning if it's not done.

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Re: OpenSSL for windows
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2020, 11:55:33 am »
On windows you need to create the directory c:\temp\ by hand where openssl saves the certificates.
%) Why C:\Temp ??? Surely you can make OpenSSL create the certificates in another place...
I honestly don't know how. If anyone knows, will you explain it to me?
As for the example in the * .lpr file there should be a UseSSL parameter set to true.
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Re: OpenSSL for windows
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2020, 12:32:33 pm »
I honestly don't know how. If anyone knows, will you explain it to me?
With what commands did you try to create the certificates needed for HTTPS?
Or do you want to use the self-generated feature of THTTPApplication?
(In that case you don't have anything to do with your own certificates and C:\Temp etc.)

As for the example in the * .lpr file there should be a UseSSL parameter set to true.
Yes. But that's not the only thing that needs to be set.

What example are you following?

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Re: OpenSSL for windows
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2020, 01:36:41 pm »
Honestly, I'm not following a specific example. Enabling UseSSL on linux and mac everything worked. I deduced that it would be enough for windows too. What else should I set up?
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Re: OpenSSL for windows
« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2020, 01:41:40 pm »
Honestly, I'm not following a specific example. Enabling UseSSL on linux and mac everything worked. I deduced that it would be enough for windows too. What else should I set up?
I thought you also needed to set the Hostname. Because otherwise THTTPApplication can't create a self-signed certificate.

Plus that most browsers won't accept self-signed certificates and will complain (so you would need to choose "More info" and continue with unsafe site).

The only way to resolve that is really create correct certificates (buy one or create one with letsencrypt, which the browser will accept).


 

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