Thursday 10 December 2020

Perl - securing web services using SSL/TLS encryption

 Hi, Tooday program is a Mojolicious application written in Perl, which demonstrates how to use SSL/TLS encryption for secure communication and authentication/authorization for API endpoints. The program listens on port 443 using SSL/TLS encryption, and provides a login endpoint that checks if the given username and password are correct. If the login is successful, the program returns a JSON response indicating success.

The program also includes an authorization middleware that checks if the client certificate is provided for API endpoints. If the client certificate is not provided, the program returns a JSON response indicating that the access is forbidden. Finally, the program provides an example API endpoint that returns some example data as a JSON response.

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