Mutual SSL Auth Support with self issued certs

[yaronyg]

I used LoveSeat recently as part of code I wrote for an open source project I work on called Thali. Thali's goal is to figure out what it would take to make the web peer to peer. As part of this I wrote a Chrome extension that lets a web page using PouchDB talk to the Thali Device Hub. The back end of the Chrome Extension is a C# program which uses LoveSeat for some of the behind the scenes configuration of the Thali Device Hub.

The reason I'm bothering you is that Thali's data model is just CouchDB. But its security model involves mutual SSL auth using self-signed certs. To make this work in C# land I need to get my hands on the HttpWebRequest object in order to set both the client certs and to take over the server cert validation.

Unfortunately LoveSeat does not currently seem to expose the interfaces I need.

So in my fork of LoveSeat I added an extra argument to let me submit a class that any Web Requests created by LoveSeat get passed to. This gives me a 'hook' to make the changes I need.

I can't say I'm in love with the API I created. Instead of a class with one method I could have passed a method directly. I also looked at CouchConfiguration. One could imagine having an optional method there that set either a class or method that implemented the functionality I need.

In any case I submitted a pull request so you could easily see the changes I made and decide if you are interested. I also found a few bugs that I fixed and updated json.net to a more recent version via nuget.

I have no expectation that you will accept the pull request. It's just meant to make the discussion more concrete about how LoveSeat could support the functionality if you are interested in seeing it supported.