This application downloads a file from an HTTPS server (mbed.org) and looks for a specific string in that file.
This example is implemented as a logic class (HelloHTTPS) wrapping a TCP socket and a TLS context. The logic class handles all events, leaving the main loop to just check if the process has finished.
To build and run this example the requirements below are necessary:
Connect the FRDM-K64F to the internet using the ethernet cable.
Connect the FRDM-K64F to the computer with the micro-USB cable, being careful to use the micro-usb port labeled “OpenSDA”.
Navigate to the mbedtls directory supplied with your release and open a terminal.
Set the yotta target:
yotta target frdm-k64f-gcc
Check that there are no missing dependencies:
$ yt ls
If there are, yotta will list them in the terminal. Please install them before proceeding.
Build mbedtls and the examples. This will take a long time if it is the first time:
$ yt build
Copy build/frdm-k64f-gcc/test/mbedtls-test-example-tls-client.bin
to your mbed board and wait until the LED next to the USB port stops blinking.
Start the serial terminal emulator and connect to the virtual serial port presented by FRDM-K64F. For settings, use 115200 baud, 8N1, no flow control. Warning: for this example, the baud rate is not the default 9600, it is 115200.
Press the reset button on the board.
The output in the terminal window should look like:
{timeout;120}} {{host_test_name;default}} {{description;mbed TLS example HTTPS client}} {{test_id;MBEDTLS_EX_HTTPS_CLIENT}} {{start}} Client IP Address is 192.168.0.2 Connecting to developer.mbed.org:443 developer.mbed.org address: 217.140.101.20 TLS connection to developer.mbed.org established Server certificate: cert. version : 3 serial number : 11:21:4E:4B:13:27:F0:89:21:FB:70:EC:3B:B5:73:5C:FF:B9 issuer name : C=BE, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, CN=GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2 subject name : C=GB, ST=Cambridgeshire, L=Cambridge, O=ARM Ltd, CN=*.mbed.com issued on : 2015-03-05 10:31:02 expires on : 2016-03-05 10:31:02 signed using : RSA with SHA-256 RSA key size : 2048 bits basic constraints : CA=false subject alt name : *.mbed.com, *.mbed.org, mbed.org, mbed.com key usage : Digital Signature, Key Encipherment ext key usage : TLS Web Server Authentication, TLS Web Client Authentication Certificate verification passed HTTPS: Received 469 chars from server HTTPS: Received 200 OK status ... [OK] HTTPS: Received 'Hello world!' status ... [OK] HTTPS: Received message: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.7.10 Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 11:46:19 GMT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 14 Connection: keep-alive Last-Modified: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:30:34 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes Cache-Control: max-age=36000 Expires: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 21:46:19 GMT X-Upstream-L3: 172.17.42.1:8080 X-Upstream-L2: developer-sjc-cyan-1-nginx X-Upstream-L1-next-hop: 217.140.101.22:8001 X-Upstream-L1: developer-sjc-cyan-border-nginx Hello world! {{success}} {{end}}
If you are experiencing problems with this example, you should first rule out network issues by making sure the [simple HTTP file downloader example](https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-example-network-private/tree/maste r/test/helloworld-tcpclient) for the TCP module works as expected. If not, please follow the debug instructions for this example.
To print out more debug information about the TLS connection, edit the file source/main.cpp
and change the definition of DEBUG_LEVEL
near the top of the file from 0 to a positive number:
Level 1 only prints non-zero return codes from SSL functions and information about the full certificate chain being verified.
Level 2 prints more information about internal state updates.
Level 3 is intermediate.
Level 4 (the maximum) includes full binary dumps of the packets.
If the TLS connection is failing with an error similar to:
``` mbedtls_ssl_write() failed: -0x2700 (-9984): X509 - Certificate verification failed, e.g. CRL, CA or signature check failed Failed to fetch /media/uploads/mbed_official/hello.txt from developer.mbed.org:443 ```
it probably means you need to update the contents of the SSL_CA_PEM
constant (this can happen if you modify HTTPS_SERVER_NAME
, or when mbed.org
switches to a new CA when updating its certificate). Alternatively, this could mean someone is performing a man-in-the-middle attack on your connection. You can ignore this error and proceed with the connection anyway by changing the definition of UNSAFE
near the top of the file from 0 to 1. Warning: this removes all security against an active attacker, use at your own risk, for debugging only!