I have an application that requires certificate and unable to proceed further in developing a test script due to error " The certificate database file or pass phrase is invalid: Invalid file contents or pass phrase".

I received PEM file types from the team - converted it to "p12" - it's working fine with POSTMAN (response received as expected). I have imported the same "p12" file, installed at "your certificates" location in Firefox.

In RPT, While recording - Selected Client certificate and browsed to the Certificate Location path , provided password of the certificate. I got the above mentioned error as soon as I started entering password.

I also tried, Click on Multiple certificate --> Add --> Provided Hostname, Port , Certificate database path and the password (Same error as soon as I started entering password)

Should I input Password different from Certificate ?

Any help is appreciated ? 

(attached screenshot of error)

Thanks,

Sudheesh Srikantam

I have an application that requires certificate and unable to proceed further in developing a test script due to error " The certificate database file or pass phrase is invalid: Invalid file contents or pass phrase".

I received PEM file types from the team - converted it to "p12" - it's working fine with POSTMAN (response received as expected). I have imported the same "p12" file, installed at "your certificates" location in Firefox.

In RPT, While recording - Selected Client certificate and browsed to the Certificate Location path , provided password of the certificate. I got the above mentioned error as soon as I started entering password.

I also tried, Click on Multiple certificate --> Add --> Provided Hostname, Port , Certificate database path and the password (Same error as soon as I started entering password)

Should I input Password different from Certificate ?

Any help is appreciated ? 

(attached screenshot of error)

Thanks,

Sudheesh Srikantam

I  believe RPT does not support adding .cer and .key files directly, it support PKCS12 format only. These files must be converted to .pfx firstly and then add to a "keystore/database" folder (folder within RPT project).  Following are the steps to convert a .cer to .pfx and add it in keystore/database:

For conversion you need tools like "Openssl" to perform this action. The command to convert is:
openssl pkcs12 -inkey server_key.key -in server_cert.cert -export -out server_pfx.pfx

Where....

I have an application that requires certificate and unable to proceed further in developing a test script due to error " The certificate database file or pass phrase is invalid: Invalid file contents or pass phrase".

I received PEM file types from the team - converted it to "p12" - it's working fine with POSTMAN (response received as expected). I have imported the same "p12" file, installed at "your certificates" location in Firefox.

In RPT, While recording - Selected Client certificate and browsed to the Certificate Location path , provided password of the certificate. I got the above mentioned error as soon as I started entering password.

I also tried, Click on Multiple certificate --> Add --> Provided Hostname, Port , Certificate database path and the password (Same error as soon as I started entering password)

Should I input Password different from Certificate ?

Any help is appreciated ? 

(attached screenshot of error)

Thanks,

Sudheesh Srikantam

Hello Scott,

I did deleting & importing the certificates several times. Password I used while importing on Firefox is not working in RPT. I understood from your message, Older versions before 10.5.3 might have this issue - I'm using 10.0.2. Do you think this version has issue with certificate ?

Thanks,

Sudheesh S

I  believe RPT does not support adding .cer and .key files directly, it support PKCS12 format only. These files must be converted to .pfx firstly and then add to a "keystore/database" folder (folder within RPT project).  Following are the steps to convert a .cer to .pfx and add it in keystore/database:

For conversion you need tools like "Openssl" to perform this action. The command to convert is:
openssl pkcs12 -inkey server_key.key -in server_cert.cert -export -out server_pfx.pfx

Where....

I have an application that requires certificate and unable to proceed further in developing a test script due to error " The certificate database file or pass phrase is invalid: Invalid file contents or pass phrase".

I received PEM file types from the team - converted it to "p12" - it's working fine with POSTMAN (response received as expected). I have imported the same "p12" file, installed at "your certificates" location in Firefox.

In RPT, While recording - Selected Client certificate and browsed to the Certificate Location path , provided password of the certificate. I got the above mentioned error as soon as I started entering password.

I also tried, Click on Multiple certificate --> Add --> Provided Hostname, Port , Certificate database path and the password (Same error as soon as I started entering password)

Should I input Password different from Certificate ?

Any help is appreciated ? 

(attached screenshot of error)

Thanks,

Sudheesh Srikantam

RPT 10.0.2 (from December 2019) should be recent enough.

You can use the command "certutil -dump rdi_api_qa_2023.p12" to check on your certificate.  After entering this command, you will need to provide the certificate's password.

Hello Scott,

I did deleting & importing the certificates several times. Password I used while importing on Firefox is not working in RPT. I understood from your message, Older versions before 10.5.3 might have this issue - I'm using 10.0.2. Do you think this version has issue with certificate ?

Thanks,

Sudheesh S

I  believe RPT does not support adding .cer and .key files directly, it support PKCS12 format only. These files must be converted to .pfx firstly and then add to a "keystore/database" folder (folder within RPT project).  Following are the steps to convert a .cer to .pfx and add it in keystore/database:

For conversion you need tools like "Openssl" to perform this action. The command to convert is:
openssl pkcs12 -inkey server_key.key -in server_cert.cert -export -out server_pfx.pfx

Where....

I have an application that requires certificate and unable to proceed further in developing a test script due to error " The certificate database file or pass phrase is invalid: Invalid file contents or pass phrase".

I received PEM file types from the team - converted it to "p12" - it's working fine with POSTMAN (response received as expected). I have imported the same "p12" file, installed at "your certificates" location in Firefox.

In RPT, While recording - Selected Client certificate and browsed to the Certificate Location path , provided password of the certificate. I got the above mentioned error as soon as I started entering password.

I also tried, Click on Multiple certificate --> Add --> Provided Hostname, Port , Certificate database path and the password (Same error as soon as I started entering password)

Should I input Password different from Certificate ?

Any help is appreciated ? 

(attached screenshot of error)

Thanks,

Sudheesh Srikantam

I  believe RPT does not support adding .cer and .key files directly, it support PKCS12 format only. These files must be converted to .pfx firstly and then add to a "keystore/database" folder (folder within RPT project).  Following are the steps to convert a .cer to .pfx and add it in keystore/database:

For conversion you need tools like "Openssl" to perform this action. The command to convert is:
openssl pkcs12 -inkey server_key.key -in server_cert.cert -export -out server_pfx.pfx

Where....

I have an application that requires certificate and unable to proceed further in developing a test script due to error " The certificate database file or pass phrase is invalid: Invalid file contents or pass phrase".

I received PEM file types from the team - converted it to "p12" - it's working fine with POSTMAN (response received as expected). I have imported the same "p12" file, installed at "your certificates" location in Firefox.

In RPT, While recording - Selected Client certificate and browsed to the Certificate Location path , provided password of the certificate. I got the above mentioned error as soon as I started entering password.

I also tried, Click on Multiple certificate --> Add --> Provided Hostname, Port , Certificate database path and the password (Same error as soon as I started entering password)

Should I input Password different from Certificate ?

Any help is appreciated ? 

(attached screenshot of error)

Thanks,

Sudheesh Srikantam

Hello Rajesh,

Thanks for your reply ! I used "CER" files only in POSTMAN to make sure that certificates are working. However, I converted it to "p12" format before importing in RPT. As per your suggestion, I'll try to change the extension to "pfx" (though p12 and pfx are same) - Hopefully, It works. 

Regards,

Sudheesh S

I  believe RPT does not support adding .cer and .key files directly, it support PKCS12 format only. These files must be converted to .pfx firstly and then add to a "keystore/database" folder (folder within RPT project).  Following are the steps to convert a .cer to .pfx and add it in keystore/database:

For conversion you need tools like "Openssl" to perform this action. The command to convert is:
openssl pkcs12 -inkey server_key.key -in server_cert.cert -export -out server_pfx.pfx

Where....

I have an application that requires certificate and unable to proceed further in developing a test script due to error " The certificate database file or pass phrase is invalid: Invalid file contents or pass phrase".

I received PEM file types from the team - converted it to "p12" - it's working fine with POSTMAN (response received as expected). I have imported the same "p12" file, installed at "your certificates" location in Firefox.

In RPT, While recording - Selected Client certificate and browsed to the Certificate Location path , provided password of the certificate. I got the above mentioned error as soon as I started entering password.

I also tried, Click on Multiple certificate --> Add --> Provided Hostname, Port , Certificate database path and the password (Same error as soon as I started entering password)

Should I input Password different from Certificate ?

Any help is appreciated ? 

(attached screenshot of error)

Thanks,

Sudheesh Srikantam