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kong.client.tls
Client TLS connection module.
A set of functions for interacting with TLS connections from the client.
kong.client.tls.request_client_certificate([ca_certs])
Requests the client to present its client-side certificate to initiate mutual TLS authentication between server and client.
This function requests, but does not require the client to start the mTLS process. The TLS handshake can still complete even if the client doesn’t present a client certificate. However, in that case, it becomes a TLS connection instead of an mTLS connection, as there is no mutual authentication.
To find out whether the client honored the request, use
get_full_client_certificate_chain
in later phases.
The ca_certs
argument is the optional CA certificate chain opaque pointer,
which can be created by the parse_pem_cert
or resty.opensslx509.chain
The Distinguished Name (DN) list hints of the CA certificates will be sent to clients.
If omitted, will not send any DN list to clients.
Phases
- certificate
Parameters
-
ca_certs (
cdata
, optional): The CA certificate chain opaque pointer
Returns
-
true|nil
: Returnstrue
if successful, ornil
if it fails. -
nil|err
: Returnsnil
if successful, or an error message if it fails.
Usage
local x509_lib = require "resty.openssl.x509"
local chain_lib = require "resty.openssl.x509.chain"
local res, err
local chain = chain_lib.new()
-- err check
local x509, err = x509_lib.new(pem_cert, "PEM")
-- err check
res, err = chain:add(x509)
-- err check
-- `chain.ctx` is the raw data of the chain, i.e. `STACK_OF(X509) *`
res, err = kong.client.tls.request_client_certificate(chain.ctx)
if not res then
-- do something with err
end
kong.client.tls.disable_session_reuse()
Prevents the TLS session for the current connection from being reused by disabling the session ticket and session ID for the current TLS connection.
Phases
- certificate
Returns
-
true|nil
: Returnstrue
if successful,nil
if it fails. -
nil|err
: Returnsnil
if successful, or an error message if it fails.
Usage
local res, err = kong.client.tls.disable_session_reuse()
if not res then
-- do something with err
end
kong.client.tls.get_full_client_certificate_chain()
Returns the PEM encoded downstream client certificate chain with the client certificate at the top and intermediate certificates (if any) at the bottom.
Phases
- rewrite, access, balancer, header_filter, body_filter, log
Returns
-
string|nil
: Returns a PEM-encoded client certificate if the mTLS handshake was completed, ornil
if an error occurred or the client did not present its certificate. -
nil|err
: Returnsnil
if successful, or an error message if it fails.
Usage
local cert, err = kong.client.get_full_client_certificate_chain()
if err then
-- do something with err
end
if not cert then
-- client did not complete mTLS
end
-- do something with cert
kong.client.tls.set_client_verify()
Overrides the client’s verification result generated by the log serializer.
By default, the request.tls.client_verify
field inside the log
generated by Kong’s log serializer is the same as the
$ssl_client_verify
Nginx variable.
Only "SUCCESS"
, "NONE"
, or "FAILED:<reason>"
are accepted values.
This function does not return anything on success, and throws a Lua error in case of a failure.
Phases
- rewrite, access, balancer
Usage
kong.client.tls.set_client_verify("FAILED:unknown CA")