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Bug #5329

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XMLRPC HA sync is not working with https

Added by Renato Botelho about 9 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:

Resolved

Priority:

High

Assignee:

Renato Botelho

Category:

XMLRPC

Target version:

2.3

Start date:

10/21/2015

Due date:

% Done:

100%

Estimated time:

Plus Target Version:

Release Notes:

Affected Version:

2.3

Affected Architecture:

Description

To reproduce setup 2 pfSense boxes using https and then set HA XMLRPC sync and Notices like this will popup:

A communications error occurred while attempting XMLRPC sync with username admin https://192.168.1.6:443. @ 2015-10-21 12:08:46

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Updated by Jim Thompson about 9 years ago

Assignee set to Renato Botelho

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Updated by Chris Buechler about 9 years ago

Status changed from New to Confirmed
Priority changed from Normal to High

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Updated by Jeremy Porter about 9 years ago

Tried turning off config sync over HTTPS, still get errors, will capture some traffic in a bit:
A communications error occurred while attempting XMLRPC sync with username admin https://192.168.13.3:443. 2015-11-12 14:21:47 A communications error occurred while attempting XMLRPC sync with username admin https://192.168.13.3:443. 2015-11-12 14:21:48
A communications error occurred while attempting XMLRPC sync with username admin https://192.168.13.3:443. 2015-11-12 16:30:53 A communications error occurred while attempting XMLRPC sync with username admin https://192.168.13.3:443. 2015-11-12 16:30:54
An error code was received while attempting XMLRPC sync with username admin http://192.168.13.3:80 - Code 2: Invalid return payload: enable debugging to examine incoming payload 2015-11-12 16:54:37 An error code was received while attempting XMLRPC sync with username admin http://192.168.13.3:80 - Code 2: Invalid return payload: enable debugging to examine incoming payload 2015-11-12 16:55:57
An error code was received while attempting XMLRPC sync with username admin http://192.168.13.3:80 - Code 2: Invalid return payload: enable debugging to examine incoming payload 2015-11-12 20:37:09 An error code was received while attempting XMLRPC sync with username admin http://192.168.13.3:80 - Code 2: Invalid return payload: enable debugging to examine incoming payload 2015-11-12 20:47:12

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Updated by Chris Buechler about 9 years ago

Category changed from High Availability to 62

This looks to be something enabling certificate validation where it wasn't enabled before, though not clear where that is. Not web server-specific as it's the same if you swap out lighttpd for nginx. It fails before even sending the request.

It works fine over HTTP.

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Updated by Renato Botelho about 9 years ago

Tracker changed from Bug to Todo
Subject changed from XMLRPC HA sync is not working with https to Replace fsockopen() calls by stream_socket_client()

Since PHP 5.6 fsockopen() started to validate SSL certificate, and it doesn't provide an option to disable verification. Replace all calls by stream_socket_client() disabling, code sample here:

$context_options = array(
    'ssl' => array(
        'verify_peer' => false,
        'verify_peer_name' => false
    )
);
$context = stream_context_create($context_options);
$fp = stream_socket_client("{$protocol}{$server}:{$port}",
    $this->errno, $this->errstr, $timeout,
    STREAM_CLIENT_CONNECT, $context);

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Updated by Renato Botelho about 9 years ago

Tracker changed from Todo to Bug
Subject changed from Replace fsockopen() calls by stream_socket_client() to XMLRPC HA sync is not working with https
Status changed from Confirmed to Assigned