Node.js

Use Installed Cert on Windows for TLS Client Authentication

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Demonstrates how to use a certificate that has already been installed on a Windows PC for TLS client authentication. Node.js

NODEJS_PRELUDE

function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    var http = new chilkat.Http();

    // On Windows, a pre-installed certificate can be loaded in a number of different ways.
    // This example loads by the common name:
    var cert = new chilkat.Cert();
    success = cert.LoadByCommonName("My ECA Medium Assurance Identity Certificate");
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(cert.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    // Make sure this certificate has a private key available.  
    // It should be a private key such that when the certificate was installed, it was marked as "exportable"
    // so that authorized programs are able to access the private key.
    if (cert.HasPrivateKey() !== true) {
        console.log("A private key is needed for TLS client authentication.");
        console.log("This certificate has no private key.");
        return;
    }

    // Set the certificate to be used for mutual TLS authentication
    // (i.e. sets the client-side certificate for two-way TLS authentication)
    success = http.SetSslClientCert(cert);
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(http.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    // At this point, the HTTP object instance is setup with the client-side cert, and any SSL/TLS
    // connection will automatically use it if the server demands a client-side cert.

}

chilkatExample();