Mono(httpcfg)

💖 httpcfg — the Mono Certificate Management for HttpListener glow-up 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Mono(httpcfg) era ✨ this is the manual page, and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

httpcfg — Mono Certificate Management for HttpListener 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

httpcfg [options] certificate

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically, this tool manages the certificates that the HttpListener embeddable server class uses — but only when you've configured HttpListener as an HTTPS server instead of an HTTP server. like, it's the certificate handler for that exact situation, no cap 💅

you must pick one of the possible actions: add, delete or list. there is no "do nothing" option, bestie, you have to commit 😌

when you're adding a certificate (-add), you have to bring the whole friend group of info along:

• a certificate (with the -cert flag) 💖
• a Private Key file (with the -pvk argument — the filename is typically key 🔑)
• a port number (with the -port flag)

when you're deleting a certificate (-del or -delete), you only need to hand over the port number. that's it. that's the whole vibe ✨

👑 PARAMETERS 👑

• -add — adds a new certificate/private key combination so the HttpListener API can use it at a given port 🔥
• -del, -delete — deletes the certificates associated with the port you specify (and yeah, it must be specified separately, so don't try to sneak it in anywhere else 💀)
• -list — lists every known certificate. a little certificate parade 🎀
• -port PORT — specifies the port to add certificates to, or remove certificates from 🌈
• -pvk FILE — specifies the Private Key file 🔑
• -cert CERT — specifies the certificate file to use 📜

🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

here's the moment you've been waiting for, an actual command 🫶

httpcfg -add -port 8081 -pvk myfile.pvk -cert MyCert

and if you wanna know more about creating the certificate file and the private key, the manual says to see this web page:

http://www.mono-project.com/docs/web/using-clientcertificates-with-xsp/

🍓 FILES 🍓

the certificates are stored in the ~/.mono/httplistener directory 💖 that's where they live. that's their home. respect it 🏠

💜 AUTHOR 💜

httpcfg was written by Gonzalo Paniagua 👑

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright (C) 2006 Novell.

🧚 MAILING LISTS 🧚

visit http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list for details 💌

⭐ WEB SITE ⭐

visit http://www.mono-project.com for details 🌐

💅 SEE ALSO 💅

• makecert(1)
• signcode(1)
• cert2spc(1)

and for the private key format:

http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/pvk.html

ok that's literally the whole page, you ate that reading it fr fr 🙈

and that's a wrap on Mono(httpcfg), bestie — this little masterpiece lives under the Mono(httpcfg) banner and it's iconic, periodt 💖✨🦋