Can't proxy request when target server is HTTPS

[OliverJAsh]

Hi,

I have a server running at https://localhost:9000. I added this as an alias in hotel:

❯ cat ~/.hotel/servers/cubik.json
{
  "target": "https://localhost:9000"
}

However, when I try to access the alias cubik.dev, I get this response:

Can't proxy request to https://localhost:9000

Accessing https://localhost:9000 works fine.

I tried with a different server on HTTP and that seemed to work OK, so I'm not sure what the problem could be.

Here is my daemon log, if that helps:

10 Jan 09:11:51 - Resolve cubik
10 Jan 09:11:51 - Proxy http://cubik.dev to https://localhost:9000
10 Jan 09:11:51 - Proxy error
10 Jan 09:11:52 - Resolve cubik
10 Jan 09:11:52 - Proxy http://cubik.dev to https://localhost:9000
10 Jan 09:11:52 - Proxy error

[typicode]

Hi @OliverJAsh,

There seem to be an issue when target is https. If you try proxying to http://localhost:9000, do you have the issue? You can still go https://cubik.dev.

[OliverJAsh]

Thanks @typicode. That appears to be the issue. I'll update the title to reflect that.

[typicode]

Thank you.
I'll have a look, I'm almost sure it worked before so maybe it's related to a recent update.

[typicode]

When the request is proxied, host is cubik.dev and it may not match the hosts from your certificate.
If possible, I would create a dev certificate with cubik.dev in it and see if it works.

Next version of Hotel will show and log proxy errors to make debugging easier. Not sure yet how this case should be handled in Hotel.

[typicode]

Hi @OliverJAsh,

Just released v0.6.0, you can now pass --co/--change-origin when adding a remote server. It will change the host header to match the remote host. This should solve the case where host doesn't match the one in the certificate.

hotel add --co https://cubik.dev

[OliverJAsh]

Thanks @typicode