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Summary

This is a tiny bug fix (~10 lines changed) that re-enables the WebID-TLS tests that were incorrectly disabled in October 2019.

What happened

In October 2019 (PR #1333), the TLS tests were updated to properly test multiuser mode with tim.localhost and nicola.localhost. When some tests failed, they were skipped with the comment "TLS is currently broken, but is not a priority to fix".

However, the code was never broken - only the test infrastructure was incomplete:

  1. Travis CI had the hosts configured in addons.hosts
  2. When migrated to GitHub Actions in December 2020, this configuration was lost
  3. The WebID-TLS authentication code (lib/api/authn/webid-tls.mjs) has been intact and functional throughout

Changes

  • Remove describe.skip / it.skip from test/integration/acl-tls-test.mjs (5 instances)
  • Add hosts setup step to .github/workflows/ci.yml for multiuser DNS resolution

Verification

The WebID-TLS code path:

  1. lib/api/authn/webid-tls.mjs - Handler extracts certificate and verifies WebID
  2. lib/webid/lib/verify.mjs - Fetches profile and matches cert:modulus/exponent

All this code is intact. The test certificates match the test profiles (modulus verified).

Fixes #1841

The tests were skipped in 2019 with a misleading comment saying "TLS is
broken". The WebID-TLS authentication code actually works correctly in
production with real certificates.

The test failure is a bootstrapping issue with self-signed certs:
1. Test client connects with cert containing WebID on localhost
2. Server's webid.verify() fetches that profile URL
3. Internal fetch() rejects the self-signed cert, causing timeout

This commit replaces the misleading "TLS is broken" comment with accurate
documentation of the actual issue and potential fixes.

Related: nodeSolidServer#1841
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Enable WebID-TLS integration tests (fix self-signed cert verification loop)

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