Adding a self-signed certificate to iphone Simulator?

Question

I have a self-signed certificate at the endpoint of my API. I'm trying to test some things using the simulator but am getting "untrusted server certificate".

I have tried to use safari on the simulator to download the .crt file, but that doesn't seem to work.

Where does iPhone Simulator get its keychain from? How can I add a trusted certificate so my application will work?

UPDATE

I got it to work by creating a CA and then adding a CA certificate using the iPhone provisioning tool. Then I was able to have a certificate signed by that CA certificate on the API server and the NSConnection just worked. I was not able to get it to work using a self-signed certificate for some reason. I need to re-attempt this using the provisioning software.

My real question is how do I get this to work on the simulator? I would think that the simulator uses the keychain of the actual computer.

Answer 1

I'm not aware of a way to import the certificate, but there is a way to establish HTTPS connections without a valid server certificate. See this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/933331/how-to-use-nsurlconnection-to-connect-with-ssl-for-an-untrusted-cert

Not exactly an answer to your question, but I hope it helps.