[rabbitmq-discuss] SSL-enabled AMQP driver for node.js

Thu Apr 12 11:04:13 BST 2012

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 19:23, Eugene Prystupa <prystupa at sqlapi.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to connect to RabbitMQ over SSL from node.js? The only driver
> I'm aware of is amqp-node (https://github.com/postwait/node-amqp) and it
> seems like it does NOT support SSL binding.

Not that I know of.

The code looks quite integrated with net.Stream, so adding SSL
support may not be trivial. This seems to be the core:
   https://github.com/postwait/node-amqp/blob/master/amqp.js#L847

Another alternative is to use stunnel in client mode on your client host.

> Another question: are there plans to officially support JavaScript client
> driver for Rabbit/AMQP?

Nope. node-amqp with all it's problems it's doing it's job well.

Marek