Golang : Disable security check for HTTPS(SSL) with bad or expired certificate
There are times when a webmaster failed to renew the certificates from SSL connection in time or some other reason for the SSL certificates to expire. A friend of mine has a Golang program that will download data from an external website. However, the program failed recently because of the external website's expired SSL certificates.
This tutorial is a note from helping a friend today to create a custom HTTP transport client in Golang. It is to handle data retrieval for web server with expired SSL certificates by skipping security check. Basically, just a custom HTTP transport client disabled security check.
Hope you may find it useful when you encounter the similar situation in future.
Here you go!
package main
import (
"crypto/tls"
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"net/http"
"os"
)
func main() {
transCfg := &http.Transport{
TLSClientConfig: &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true}, // ignore expired SSL certificates
}
client := &http.Client{Transport: transCfg}
response, err := client.Get("https://socketloop.com/")
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
defer response.Body.Close()
htmlData, err := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
fmt.Println(os.Stdout, string(htmlData))
}
NOTE : In a production system, it would be wise to use InsecureSkipVerify : true
parameter if the normal/secure method failed. Use it as a fallback method rather than the "normal" method. Remember to send a notification, log message or email to the system administrator if the fallback method is activated.
By Adam Ng
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