I have used push notification for my project & was working fine with HTTP connection. Server was responding well. Now Its not working with HTTPs . Please guide if any one figure it out. What's the solution ?
You can't use a self-signed certificate, as far as I'm aware.
From the developer guide:
For each interface you should use TLS (or SSL) to establish a secured
communications channel. The SSL certificate required for these
connections is provisioned through the iPhone Developer Program
portal. (See "Provisioning and Development" for details.) To establish
a trusted provider identity, you should present this certificate
to APNs at connection time using peer-to-peer authentication.
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I am trying to sniff traffic from some of my apps on the iphone.
I have charles installed. and i have installed the certificate on the iphone as instructed in charles (and i enabled the certificate on the iphone) + changes proxy to direct trafik from iphone to my computer through charles.
Everything works, i am getting trafik from the phone inside charles.
My problem is, all https called are failing for me. if i enable SSL proxy on a certain domain (let's take *.facebook.com for example) all requests give me a Failure SSL: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?.
It does not matter which app or which connection i try, i get the same error..
can anyone help me
Starting from iOS 10.3 SSL trust for the certificate has to be turned on manually for the manually installed certificate profiles in iOS so go to Settings > General > About > Certificate Trust Settings. Under Enable full trust for root certificates turn on trust for the certificate.]]
Here is the link to apple documentation
I'm currently learning to develop for iOS and reached the points where i want to play around with some push-notifications.
I was able to use the developing certificate to register the iPhone for Push-Notifications but now i want to establish a connection between my debian rootserver and the APNS (for the first try i'll connect to the sandbox-server).
Some tutorials showed me how to receive a certificate for my Mac but therefore I need a valid certificate for my server or am I wrong with this assumption?
As far as I know the APNS works with apple certificates only. In short:
Create an app id in provisioning portal
Enable it for push notifications
Generate certificates following the usual procedure.
Combine the generated certificate and private key into one .pem and us it in communicating with apple.
This tutorial was all I needed:
http://www.raywenderlich.com/3443/
I am implementing a push notification system for one of my apps, so I am following this tutorial and generating a SSL certificate for that.
This app of mine involves also, some exchange of data between the app and the server and I would like it to be SSL protected and I was wondering of getting a SSL certificate from verisign or other company like that.
My question is: is this SSL certificate created for push a regular SSL certificate, so in that can use it also to establish a https connection to the server (and save a couple hundred dollars to order a third party certificate)? I don't know much about SSL certificates, but I hope it can be used for that...
This will be amazing!
Since each certificate is tied to a specific domain, I'm not sure how this would work. There is a concept of wildcard certificates, but I still think they have to be for the same domain.
In your case, it sounds like you will have the Apple push certificate, which validates the connection between your server and Apple's push notification server. The other certificate would be to validate/secure the connection between your iOS app and your server. Both of these are assigned a different domain (gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com vs. yourserver.com).
One option you do have depending on how your iOS app is structured is to use a self-signed certificate between your iOS app and your server. I'm guessing the end-user will not be seeing the certificate anyway. This might be a way to save you money before deciding on a third party certificate.
Is ssl necessary for Apple's Push Notification Service (apns)?
SSL is the only solution to send notifications !
Yes, But not in the usual sense of buying an SSL to sit on a server for a website. The SSL is generated from the certificate you acquire when registering with apple for the iOS developer scheme.
There is a fantastic tutorial on getting an APNS provider server up and running here:
How to build an Apple Push Notification provider server (tutorial) by David Mytton
Yes, it is required, otherwise it would be insecure.
Not only that it is necessary, it is mandatory. And furthermore, you should consider using TLS instead of SSL.
The production Apple Push Notification service will begin to use a 2048-bit TLS/SSL certificate that provides a more secure connection between your provider server and the Apple Push Notification service.
Can any body explain what is this and what changes we need to make on Server/ iPhone app?
This will not affect anything on your side (as far as your SSL library supports 2048-bit keys/signatures, nearly all modern SSL client libraries do that).