Overview
This post provides guidelines on how to validate a xyz.com domain. By validation, I mean that the domain has a valid certificate signed by Certificate Authority.
Scenarios
The list given below contains scenarios in which you want to validate the domain/URL:
You want to upload data to a server with a URL like this (xyz.com) and you are not sure whether this server is secure or not.
You have developed a B2B service and you want to only serve requests from valid domains.
How to do it?
In node.js there are two ways to do it:
- https module
- ssl-validate module
1. HTTPS Module
Nodejs https module’s request method validates the domain provided against the chain of Certificate Authorities root certificate. A code example is given below:
var https = require('https');
var options = {
hostname: 'github.com/',
port: 443,
path: '/',
method: 'GET',
rejectUnauthorized: true
};
var req = https.request(options, function(res) {
console.log("statusCode: ", res.statusCode);
console.log("headers: ", res.headers);
});
req.end();
req.on('error', function(e) {
console.error(e);
});
Keypoints
rejectUnauthorized: This means that it will validate the server/domain certificate against the chain of CA's root certificate.
The only problem with this approach is that this chain should be updated regularly otherwise a new domain that is signed by a certificate authority root certificate which is not part of the chain, marked as an invalid certificate(a common example is a self-signed certificate).
2. ssl-validate Module
It can also be used but it requires another module to get the domain information.
Top comments (3)
This is a copy from a medium article.
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