AIA (Authority Information Access) Transport Go

AIA-Transport-Go provides an http.Transport which uses the AIA (Authority Information Access) X.509 extension to resolve incomplete certificate chains during the tls handshake. See rfc3280 for more details.

Installation

go get github.com/fcjr/aia-transport-go

Usage

tr, err := aia.NewTransport()
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}
client := http.Client{
    Transport: tr,
}
res, err := client.Get("https://incomplete-chain.badssl.com/")
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Println(res.Status)

Todos

• Follow single incomplete AIA chain
• Tests
• CI & Code Coverage
• Documentation
• Chain Caching
• Certificate Caching
• Follow all possible issuing urls
• Benchmarks