apt-transport-https

APT-TRANSPORT-HTTP(1)                 APT                APT-TRANSPORT-HTTP(1)

NAME
       apt-transport-https - APT transport for downloading via the HTTP Secure
       protocol (HTTPS)

DESCRIPTION
       This APT transport allows the use of repositories accessed via the HTTP
       Secure protocol (HTTPS), also referred to as HTTP over TLS. It is
       available by default since apt 1.5 and was available before that in the
       package apt-transport-https. Note that a transport is never called
       directly by a user but used by APT tools based on user configuration.

       HTTP is by itself an unencrypted transport protocol (compare apt-
       transport-http(1)), which, as indicated by the appended S, is wrapped
       in an encrypted layer known as Transport Layer Security (TLS) to
       provide end-to-end encryption. A sufficiently capable attacker can
       still observe the communication partners and deeper analysis of the
       encrypted communication might still reveal important details. An
       overview over available alternative transport methods is given in
       sources.list(5).

OPTIONS
       The HTTPS protocol is based on the HTTP protocol, so all options
       supported by apt-transport-http(1) are also available via
       Acquire::https and will default to the same values specified for
       Acquire::http. This manpage will only document the options unique to
       https.

   Server credentials
       By default all certificates trusted by the system (see ca-certificates
       package) are used for the verification of the server certificate. An
       alternative certificate authority (CA) can be configured with the
       Acquire::https::CAInfo option and its host-specific option
       Acquire::https::CAInfo::host. The CAInfo option specifies a file made
       up of CA certificates (in PEM format) concatenated together to create
       the chain which APT should use to verify the path from your self-signed
       root certificate. If the remote server provides the whole chain during
       the exchange, the file need only contain the root certificate.
       Otherwise, the whole chain is required. If you need to support multiple
       authorities, the only way is to concatenate everything.

       A custom certificate revocation list (CRL) can be configured with the
       options Acquire::https::CRLFile and Acquire::https::CRLFile::host. As
       with the previous option, a file in PEM format needs to be specified.

   Disabling security
       During server authentication, if certificate verification fails for
       some reason (expired, revoked, man in the middle, etc.), the connection
       fails. This is obviously what you want in all cases and what the
       default value (true) of the option Acquire::https::Verify-Peer and its
       host-specific variant provides. If you know exactly what you are doing,
       setting this option to "false" allows you to skip peer certificate
       verification and make the exchange succeed. Again, this option is for
       debugging or testing purposes only as it removes all security provided
       by the use of HTTPS.

       Similarly the option Acquire::https::Verify-Host and its host-specific
       variant can be used to deactivate a security feature: The certificate
       provided by the server includes the identity of the server which should
       match the DNS name used to access it. By default, as requested by RFC
       2818, the name of the mirror is checked against the identity found in
       the certificate. This default behavior is safe and should not be
       changed, but if you know that the server you are using has a DNS name
       which does not match the identity in its certificate, you can set the
       option to "false", which will prevent the comparison from being
       performed.

   Client authentication
       Besides supporting password-based authentication (see apt_auth.conf(5))
       HTTPS also supports authentication based on client certificates via
       Acquire::https::SSLCert and Acquire::https::SSLKey. These should be set
       respectively to the filename of the X.509 client certificate and the
       associated (unencrypted) private key, both in PEM format. In practice
       the use of the host-specific variants of both options is highly
       recommended.

EXAMPLES
           Acquire::https {
                Proxy::example.org "DIRECT";
                Proxy "socks5h://apt:pass@127.0.0.1:9050";
                Proxy-Auto-Detect "/usr/local/bin/apt-https-proxy-auto-detect";
                No-Cache "true";
                Max-Age "3600";
                No-Store "true";
                Timeout "10";
                Dl-Limit "42";
                Pipeline-Depth "0";
                AllowRedirect "false";
                User-Agent "My APT-HTTPS";
                SendAccept "false";

                CAInfo "/path/to/ca/certs.pem";
                CRLFile "/path/to/all/crl.pem";
                Verify-Peer "true";
                Verify-Host::broken.example.org "false";
                SSLCert::example.org "/path/to/client/cert.pem";
                SSLKey::example.org "/path/to/client/key.pem"
           };

SEE ALSO
       apt-transport-http(1) apt.conf(5) apt_auth.conf(5) sources.list(5)

BUGS
       APT bug page[1]. If you wish to report a bug in APT, please see
       /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the reportbug(1) command.

AUTHOR
       APT team

NOTES
        1. APT bug page
           http://bugs.debian.org/src:apt

APT 2.0.10                        11 May 2018            APT-TRANSPORT-HTTP(1)