[rabbitmq-discuss] Connecting to RabbitMQ on Windows Server Using Wildcard Cert with .NET Client Using SSL

[Rich Miller]

We were successful in getting the SSL communications between our .NET 
client and RabbitMQ working by following the steps described on the 
RabbitMQ website to use OpenSSL to self-generate certificates and keys.  We 
will be spending a bit more time researching how we can incorporate our 
wildcard certificate at some point, but I don't believe our requirements 
will be broken if we go to production with the self-generated certificate, 
as this server is non-Internet-facing.  I'd be happy to share some of our 
experiences and what we discovered if anyone needs any information.

Thanks.

Rich

On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 1:40:27 PM UTC-4, Rich Miller wrote:
>
> The title pretty much says it all. I'm trying quite unsuccessfully to get 
> to a RabbitMQ server running as a service on Windows Server 2008 R2 using a 
> .NET client.  Server is using a wildcard certificate issued by GeoTrust. 
>  GeoTrust is listed in my Trusted Root Certificate Authorities on the 
> client box.  I'm simply trying to set up an SSL connection between the 
> client and the server, not trying to authenticate using a certificate. 
>  I've read the docs on the RabbitMQ website and several other blog posts 
> about setting this up, but I've had no success.
>
> Typical error messages reported by the client include "Authentication 
> failed because the remote party has closed the transport stream" and 
> "Cannot find the requested object" (after trying to pass a .key file in as 
> the cert file).
>
> RabbitMQ Server is 2.7.1 and Erlang is R15B03-1.  Client code looks 
> basically like this:
>
>             ' configure the connection factory
>             Me.Factory.HostName = hostName
>             Me.Factory.VirtualHost = virtualHostName
>             Me.Factory.UserName = userName
>             Me.Factory.Password = password
>             Me.Factory.Protocol = Protocols.AMQP_0_9_1
>             Me.Factory.Port = AmqpTcpEndpoint.DefaultAmqpSslPort
>             Me.Factory.Ssl.ServerName = hostName
>             Me.Factory.Ssl.CertPath = 
> "C:\Gravic\Development\TestRabbitMQSSL\TestRabbitMQSSL\bin\Debug\Clientcert.pfx"
>             Me.Factory.Ssl.CertPassphrase = "thepassphrase"
>             Me.Factory.Ssl.Enabled = True
>
>             ' create the connection using the factory
>             Return Me.Factory.CreateConnection()
>
> I'd appreciate any tips or pointers from anyone who has successfully made 
> the SSL connection from .NET client to RabbitMQ server running on Windows.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rich
>
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