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feat: start using rustls instead of openssl #255

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@Angelmmiguel Angelmmiguel commented Nov 24, 2023

Before, wws was using OpenSSL to establish external connections using the reqwest crate. Initially, we wanted to use rustls, but the compilation was failing for Windows arm64. After closing all the tasks described in #137, we can now switch to rustls.

In the past, we had multiple issues and CVEs due to the OpenSSL dependency. In addition to that, we had to compile it from scratch on every build so it was taking extra time. Also, we had to include ca-certificates in the containers images as we are using scratch. From now on, we will rely on rustls related certs (webpki).

It closes #137

@Angelmmiguel Angelmmiguel added the 🚀 enhancement New feature or request label Nov 24, 2023
@Angelmmiguel Angelmmiguel added this to the v1.8.0 milestone Nov 24, 2023
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Super! Thanks @Angelmmiguel! Just a couple of comments :), LGTM :)

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ wws-server = { workspace = true }
wws-project = { workspace = true }

[dev-dependencies]
reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = ["blocking"] }
reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = ["rustls", "blocking"] }
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reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = ["rustls", "blocking"] }
reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = ["rustls-tls", "blocking"] }

As per https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest/blob/master/Cargo.toml#L41

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We might want to use rustls-tls-webpki-roots as well, so that we can provide a static binary that contains the root certificates bundled in the binary itself, without the need for the host system running wws to have ca-certificates or similar installed.

This has its problems of course, as for example, root certificate revocation, but I think it should be fine for now.

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Good catch! Unfortunately, I'm going to close this PR due to #256. We still need to find an alternative that works for git2-rs :/

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Ouch, right.

@Angelmmiguel Angelmmiguel removed this from the v1.8.0 milestone Nov 24, 2023
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Closing for now as this feature is blocked by #256

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Switch to rustls to avoid compiling OpenSSL
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