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• SSL requests failing

  in ESP8266 • 1 year, 4 months

  

  Well, for this project, the lack of SSL is not the killer. I can definitely do a lot at the remote server end (like limiting the access to an IP range), or possibly add an Nginx/PHP server as a mediator :)

  Espruino is somewhat weird, but fun to work with, especially when writing the JS app in TypeScript. It is much move convenient than MicroPython, for instance. I like the event-driven approach.

• SSL requests failing

  in ESP8266 • 1 year, 4 months

  

  Oh, I see, after finding the information accidentally: Hardly any boards can use HTTPS requests. I wish this fact had been written onto the http.request documentation. Now the information can only be found here: https://www.espruino.com/Internet#https and nowhere else.

  Well, I experienced a moment of re-evaluation at this point. In private (unsecure) projects, I think http may work, though.

  Anyhow, after such a good start I had, this was somewhat disappointing.

• SSL requests failing

  in ESP8266 • 1 year, 4 months

  

  In my test script I have these options

  var options = {
        host:   'badssl.com', 
        port:   443,    
        path:   '/',   
        method: 'GET', 
        protocol: 'https:',
      };
  

  and this code after the definition.

  var req = require("http").request(options, function(res) {
      res.on('data', function(data) {
        console.log(res);
        console.log("HTTP> "+data);
      });
      res.on('close', function(data) {
        console.log(res);
        console.log("Connection closed");
      });
    });
  

  However, I keep getting a code 400 reply "The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port". There are no redirects at the server end and I have tested the same functionality with my own server, address http://www.xdb.fi/dummy.txt - with the same result.

  The script seems to be using http, despite all my attempts to switch to https. Do I have two blind eyes? I have one semi-blind already :)

  Markku