REST request

Send verification files to the server by issuing an http(s) request

Plugin type HTTP validation
Download Version 2.3.0. Look for older releases on GitHub for files named like plugin.validation.http.rest.v2.x.x.zip
Compatibility All platforms

Description

Publish the challenge answer using a REST API. You will need a third party or custom server component for this validation method to work. The reference implementation can be found here.

The plugin need to be unpacked into the folder where you also unpacked wacs.exe to able to use it. Depending on how you downloaded the file, you may have to unblock all new .dll files before your computer will trust them. You can do that from the Windows File Explorer by using the right mouse button and then checking the `Unblock` box on the General tab.

If you are using simple-acme as a dotnet tool, the folder will be %userprofile%\.dotnet\tools\.store\simple-acme\2.3.0.33\simple-acme\2.3.0.33\tools\net8.0\any

To verify that the plugin is properly installed you can start the main executable with ‑‑verbose and it will print information about found and loaded plugins at start up. When the plugin is loaded, it manifests itself as extra menu choices and command line parameters being made availalbe.

This plugin requires to you use the pluggable release of the main executable. It will not work on the smaller trimmed releases.

Command line

--validation rest Activates the plugin
‑‑rest-securitytoken The bearer token needed to authenticate with the REST API on the server for PUT / DELETE requests.

You may pass the secret in plain text, but can also use a reference to the secret vault like "vault://json/mysecret".

‑‑rest-usehttps If HTTPS should be used instead of HTTP. Must be true if the server has HTTP to HTTPS redirection configured, as the redirected request always uses the GET method.

Examples

Typical --validation rest ‑‑rest-securitytoken ***** [‑‑rest-usehttps]

JSON

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