Let’s continue with DotNet stuff.

One of the problems I’ve encountered when dealing with IISExpress and using Visual Studio was when I used SSL for application.

If you are working in a team of developers, you probably agreed upon a valid port number for SSL. 

In my case it was port number 5001. 

Since I’m the only one using Visual Studio 2019 for development, I’ve encountered some issues regarding running my backend application on an agreed port number.

So, when I tried to run the application I did get an error: “ERR_CONNECTION_RESET”.

Ofcourse, my app on the agreed port number didn’t work at all.

I was becoming a little bit frustrated. And asked myself what’s going on!?

First thing that was on my mind was configuring Properties and enabling “Enable SSL” checkbox.

Well, that didn’t help.

After googling around, I found out that IISExpress has a default SSL port enabled in a range between 44300-44398.

No matter how you set-up SSL in Properties or in the appsetting.json file, it won’t have any effect.
You will constantly be getting the “ERR_CONNECTION_RESET” error.

THE SOLUTION

Although I’ve tried different solutions for this problem, none of them worked.

The only viable solution which helped me solving this issue was by running in a command prompt one-liner:

C:\Program Files\IIS Express>IisExpressAdminCmd.exe setupsslUrl -url:https://localhost:5001/ -UseSelfSigned

This overrides ISSExpress default SSL range ports and sets HTTPS to a 5001 port which is signed by myself.

This way I’ve solved my problem with SSL certificates.

Cheers.

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