Outbound SSL connection

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Hello,
We’re setting up a HTTPS (soap) connection to our partner.
I’ve received from them a CA cert (.cer) file and password protected credentials file (.p12).
The .cer has already been added to default IS truststore. However, I have no idea how to install these credentials. Could anyone explain that to me what to do, please?

Br, Hubert

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Hi Hubert,

please check if the CA issuing the final certificate is already contained in either cacerts and/our your local JKS Truststore file (default in your case).

The cert itself (the P12 file) needs to be imported as Keystore Alias into your IS (might be needed as a Truststore Alias additionally depending on the outcome of the check from my first question).
Hopefully the cert file and the P12 file are pointing to the same CA/cert.
Remember to clear the SSL cache and/or restart the IS after making changes to the keystore and truststore files.

When implementing the SOAPClient Call you need to invoke a pub.security:setKeyAndChain before the pub.client:soapClient or you can check if you can assign the Keystore and Truststore Aliases directly to the pub.client:soapClient service inputs.

Please check for the IS Administrators Guide and the IS Built-In-Services Reference for further informations.

Regards,
Holger

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Hello,
Thank you Holger for your valuable advices! I followed your instructions and was able to reach endpoint server :slight_smile: .

For future reference, what steps were done:

  1. Create truststore alias for .cer certificates
  2. Create keystore alias for .p12 credentials.
  3. Restart IS
  4. Build flow service with usage of:
    a. pub.security.keystore:setKeyAndChain before sending request to the remote server.
    b. pub.security:clearKeyAndChain after sending request to the remote server (optional, check from reference)

Br,
Hubert

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Hi Hubert,

sounds good so far.

Regards,
Holger