How on earth do you make a windows docker container talk to itself using TLS

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I have a windows container where I am installing a product to dockerfy the install.

The base image is Microsoft Artifact Registry

I have enabled TLS on the image and generated a certificate to use, currently this is self signed but I have tested with signed, the certificate is generated for “localhost” which has stopped all SSL errors for the workflow I need and is perfect for what I currently require.

however when I use PowerShell in the container and make a invoke-webrequest to ht t p s:/ /localhost or htt ps : / /127.0.0.1 I get this:

Invoke-WebRequest htt p s :confused: /localhost

Invoke-WebRequest : The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.
At line:1 char:1

  • Invoke-WebRequest ht tps :confused: /localhost
  •   + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-WebRequest], WebExc
 eption
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand

searching this error I am told to check TLS settings on the machine using this command, however they are already set as exspected:

SystemDefault

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls -bor [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls11 -bor [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
PS C:\temp> System.Net.ServicePointManager::SecurityProtocol
Tls, Tls11, Tls12

Invoke-WebRequest ht ps:/ /loca lhost
Invoke-WebRequest : The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.
At line:1 char:1

  • Invoke-WebRequest ht t ps: / /localhost
  •   + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-WebRequest], WebExc
 eption
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand

This said, I can access the container over tls from the host machine using the mapped localhost:8003 port.

Can any help me get invoke-webrequest working to localhost? This is a requirement of the application I am testing for.

Thankyou

Please excuse the extra spaces in my ht t p: etc, I am forced to do this to let me post the correct error messages

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Can you try the same command with:

-UseBasicParsing

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Thankyou, this gives the same result, -usebasicparsing is a argument to change how a response is parsed, the issue I am seeing is referencing send before the connection is established