docs: TLS auto-cert and lenient client trust

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Joseph Doherty
2026-06-01 07:43:13 -04:00
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@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ public sealed class MxGatewayClientOptions
public required string ApiKey { get; init; }
public bool UseTls { get; init; }
public string? CaCertificatePath { get; init; }
public bool RequireCertificateValidation { get; init; }
public string? ServerNameOverride { get; init; }
public TimeSpan ConnectTimeout { get; init; } = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10);
public TimeSpan DefaultCallTimeout { get; init; } = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30);
@@ -124,6 +125,24 @@ or subscription changes because those calls can partially succeed in MXAccess.
API key may be loaded from `MXGATEWAY_API_KEY` by the CLI, not implicitly by the
library constructor unless a helper explicitly says it does that.
### TLS trust posture
The gateway can serve a self-signed certificate it generates itself (it has no
PKI). To make that usable, TLS is **lenient by default**: when `UseTls` is set
and `CaCertificatePath` is empty, `CreateHttpHandler` installs a
`RemoteCertificateValidationCallback` that returns `true`, so the gateway's
self-signed certificate is accepted without verification.
To verify the gateway instead:
- set `CaCertificatePath` to pin a CA — validated via a `CustomRootTrust`
`X509Chain` against that root, and the callback additionally rejects a
hostname/SAN mismatch (`RemoteCertificateNameMismatch`); or
- set `RequireCertificateValidation` to `true` to keep the default OS/system-trust
verification on a connection with no pinned CA.
Pinning a CA always wins over the lenient default.
## Auth Interceptor
Use a gRPC call credentials/interceptor layer to attach: