[stunnel-users] Connect using TLS with public Web Server

Carlos Castro carlos.castro.guerrero at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 12:16:51 CET 2018


@Peter ... I'm sure you are the Best! :)

Now it's works . I needed put ctm.omgeo.net in host file y ready :)

Now i put http://ctm.omgeo.net:19201 and I can connect with 
https://ctm.omgeo.net  (curl  , firefox , application works!)

Many thanks :)


On 06/03/18 11:10, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 11:20:20AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 01:28:15PM +0100, Carlos Castro wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Thanks @Peter
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes , my application not support TLS and I need the application connect
>>> using TLS , for this i using stunnel (i hope)
>>>
>>> When I make curl -v http://127.0.0.1:19021  :
>>>
>>> curl -v http://127.0.0.1:19201
>>> * Rebuilt URL to: http://127.0.0.1:19201/
>>> *   Trying 127.0.0.1...
>>> * Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 19201 (#0)
>>>> GET / HTTP/1.1
>>>> Host: 127.0.0.1:19201
>>>> User-Agent: curl/7.47.0
>>>> Accept: */*
>>>>
>>> * HTTP 1.0, assume close after body
>>> < HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
>>> < Server: AkamaiGHost
>>> < Mime-Version: 1.0
>>> < Content-Type: text/html
>>> < Content-Length: 208
>>> < Expires: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:25:53 GMT
>>> < Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:25:53 GMT
>>> < Connection: close
>>>
>>> The web ctm.omgeo.net only works in mode HTTPS , .
>> TL;DR: can you actually try your application with this stunnel config?
> See below; I believe I've found the reason for the "Bad request"
> response, and you need to do something more to get it to work.
>
>> Yes, that's why you have stunnel - it will accept a pure HTTP connection
>> from your application (or, in this case, from cURL), and then it will
>> open a TLS (HTTPS) connection to ctm.omgeo.net.
>>
>> Actually, the "HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request" response that you get shows
>> that stunnel already works: the request to ctm.omgeo.net is sent via
>> HTTPS, not plain HTTP.  If you try to send a plain HTTP request to
>> ctm.omgeo.net port 443, cURL will report a very different error:
>>
>> [roam at straylight ~]$ curl -v http://ctm.omgeo.net:443/
>> *   Trying 88.221.30.124...
>> * TCP_NODELAY set
>> * Connected to ctm.omgeo.net (88.221.30.124) port 443 (#0)
>>> GET / HTTP/1.1
>>> Host: ctm.omgeo.net:443
>>> User-Agent: curl/7.58.0
>>> Accept: */*
>>>
>> * Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
>> * stopped the pause stream!
>> * Closing connection 0
>> curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
>> [roam at straylight ~]$
>>
>> This happens because ctm.omgeo.net expects a TLS Client Hello message on
>> an incoming connection, and cURL sends it a plaintext HTTP request, so
>> ctm.omgeo.net says "this is not TLS, you must speak TLS to me, go away".
>>
>> So I guess that the "400 Bad Request" response you get from
>> ctm.omgeo.net means that 1. you have successfully sent a request to it
>> and it considered it to be an HTTP request, and 2. it expected
>> the application to send it a specific request, not just a "GET /", so
>> it said "GET / is not a valid request for me, but thanks for speaking
>> HTTPS".  So it's time to test your actual application now; configure it
>> to talk to 127.0.0.1:19201 and see what happens.
>>
>> If anything goes wrong, show us the stunnel log.
> OK, so there's another thing.  If you tell cURL or your application to
> send an HTTP request to 127.0.0.1:19201, then it will send a request
> with a "Host: 127.0.0.1" header, and omgeo.net's Akamai front-end will
> not know which backend server to route it to.  So both cURL and your
> application must be convinced to send a request that has
> a "Host: ctm.omgeo.net" header.
>
> The simplest way to do this is somewhat error-prone, not quite
> future-proof, but it may work for the present.  Add "ctm.omgeo.net" to
> the 127.0.0.1 line in your hosts file (/etc/hosts on a Unix-like system,
> %WINDOWSDIR%\system32\etc\hosts on a Windows system, I believe), and
> configure stunnel to connect to 88.221.30.124:443, not ctm.omgeo.net:443.
> This last part - hardcoding the IP address of the server - is the part
> that is error-prone and not future-proof, since omgeo.net (or Akamai) may
> decide to change that address at any time and things will stop working.
> There is a hackish solution - write a little tool that performs a real DNS
> lookup and, if the IP address has changed, regenerates the stunnel config
> and restarts stunnel, then run this tool every minute or so...  Still,
> it worked for me:
>
> [roam at straylight /etc/stunnel]$ fgrep -e ctm.omgeo.net /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1	localhost	ctm.omgeo.net
> [roam at straylight /etc/stunnel]$ curl -v http://ctm.omgeo.net:19201
> * Rebuilt URL to: http://ctm.omgeo.net:19201/
> *   Trying 127.0.0.1...
> * TCP_NODELAY set
> * Connected to ctm.omgeo.net (127.0.0.1) port 19201 (#0)
>> GET / HTTP/1.1
>> Host: ctm.omgeo.net:19201
>> User-Agent: curl/7.58.0
>> Accept: */*
>>
> < HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
> < Location: /cleartrust/ct_logon.jsp
> < Content-Length: 0
> < Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 09:41:48 GMT
> < Connection: keep-alive
> < Set-Cookie: Actrust-session-v001d=aHR0cHM6Ly9jdG0ub21nZW8ubmV0OjQ0My9pbmRleC5odG1s; secure; domain=.omgeo.net; path=/
> <
> * Connection #0 to host ctm.omgeo.net left intact
> [roam at straylight /etc/stunnel]$
>
> ...so that's a start.
>
> G'luck,
> Peter
>




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