Testing MTLS with rocket::local:blocking::Client

[blbuford]

Hello,

I'm trying to make a simple two endpoint Rocket app that supports mutual TLS, and I'm running into a wall trying to test it. I read in #1566 that Rocket does not do TLS when using rocket::local::*::Client because the requests are handled locally instead of traversing the network. My unit tests don't need to validate the API's certs, but I would like the API to be able to validate the client cert during unit tests. Is there a way to give Client a cert to use in the request such that I can test the certificate dependent parts of my functions?

My hope would be that I could write something like:

use rocket::local::blocking::Client;

let rocket = rocket::build();
let client = Client::tracked(rocket).expect("valid rocket");
let response = client.get("/")
    .identity(my_client_cert)
    .dispatch();

Is something like this possible with Rocket?

[blbuford]

Submitted PR #1934. Closing question.