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Test webhooks implementation with self-signed certificate?
I'm setting up use of Dropbox webhooks in a web application. I'd like to do the development on my local machine. I can access my local machine via https from the Internet, but when I try to add the URL as a webhook URI I found that it requires the SSL certificate to not be self-signed. Is there a way to do testing on a local machine with a self-signed certificate? The error message (which contains the actual URL I used) is below. After complaining about the cert it also says there is no response body, but I'm guessing this is because it didn't even get as far as checking the body (I've tested my URL by loading it directly in a browser and via wget from a remote server).
Error: SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate
Response:
(No headers)
Response Body (First 256 bytes):
(No response body)
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Steve M.Dropbox Staff
We do certificate validation to ensure we're talking to the right server. (Otherwise a man-in-the-middle attack could intercept your webhooks.) So for now you'll need to use a non-self-signed cert for that domain.
But we'll track this as a feature request.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
[Cross-linking with StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27716164/test-dropbox-webhooks-implementation-with-self-signed-certificate ]
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