Parse Server Crash on invalid/expired APNS cert

[bnol]

I would like to reference an issue from parse-community/parse-server#3575 which crashes the node process when APNS cert is expired. It also happens for me, here is the stack trace:

3|parse-se | Error: certificate has expired: 2016-09-27T04:03:38.000Z
3|parse-se |     at validateCredentials (/opt/parse-server-tc/node_modules/apn/lib/credentials/validate.js:12:9)
3|parse-se |     at /opt/parse-server-tc/node_modules/apn/lib/connection.js:163:5
3|parse-se |     at _fulfilled (/opt/parse-server-tc/node_modules/q/q.js:834:54)
3|parse-se |     at self.promiseDispatch.done (/opt/parse-server-tc/node_modules/q/q.js:863:30)
3|parse-se |     at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (/opt/parse-server-tc/node_modules/q/q.js:796:13)
3|parse-se |     at /opt/parse-server-tc/node_modules/q/q.js:604:44
3|parse-se |     at runSingle (/opt/parse-server-tc/node_modules/q/q.js:137:13)
3|parse-se |     at flush (/opt/parse-server-tc/node_modules/q/q.js:125:13)
3|parse-se |     at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:67:7)
3|parse-se |     at process._tickDomainCallback [as _tickCallback] (internal/process/next_tick.js:122:9)

parse-server-push-adapter version: 1.2.0

[oyvindvol]

Any thoughts on this one, anyone? I am having the same problem.

[shide1989]

Same problem here, anyone knows how to solve this ?

[flovilmart]

This is expected, just pass proper/valid certiticates

[shide1989]

how do you do it ? any link to help ? i'm new to parse

[flovilmart]

What do you mean how do you do it? Did you follow the documentation to configure push properly available on docs.parseplatform.org?

[shide1989]

actually i wasn't aware of docs.parseplatform.org. I'll check that, thanks

[flovilmart]

Also, the push configuration is the first link on the first line of the README of this repository.

[gateway]

Hi, I just ran into this on our staging servers. I woke up to crashed servers and it looks like our iOS push cert for dev expired. While I'm in the process of fixing this ideally if a cert expires the app shouldn't crash ?

[flovilmart]

@gateway this is the expected behavior, as it is the node apn’s behavior, as stated many time. Feel free to fix it.

[gateway]

@flovilmart your right, looking at the first line of the error, using node-apn .. odd that something like an expired cert would crash a server.. hmm well thanks...

[paprbot]

How are you checking for certificate expiration? I noticed our certificate's expiration on Apple is 2021/10/01 (i.e. October) but we got a crash on our servers yesterday (2021/01/10). Or is this a configuration that we need to setup?

[oyvindvol]

@paprbot You can check when the certificates expire in Apple Developer Account.

[dplewis]

@paprbot I would recommend using keys instead of certs. Since keys don't expire.

ios: [
      {
        token: {
          key: './push/AuthKey_XYZ.p8',
          keyId: "ABC",
          teamId: "EFG"
        },
        topic: 'com.example',
      },
]