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Hands-On MQTT Programming with Python

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Product type Book
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138542
Pages 228 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
Profile icon Gaston C. Hillar

Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface 1. Installing an MQTT 3.1.1 Mosquitto Server 2. Using Command-Line and GUI Tools to Learn How MQTT Works 3. Securing an MQTT 3.1.1 Mosquitto Server 4. Writing Code to Control a Vehicle with Python and MQTT Messages 5. Testing and Improving Our Vehicle Control Solution in Python 6. Monitoring a Surfing Competition with Cloud-Based Real-Time MQTT Providers and Python 7. Solutions 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Testing the MQTT TLS client authentication with command-line tools

Now, we will use the Mosquitto command-line tools to test the client authentication configuration.

The following command specifies the certificate authority certificate file, the client certificate, and the client key. You have to replace ca.crt, board001.crt, and board001.key with the full path to these files created in the certificates directory. However, it is a better idea to copy these files to a new directory as if we were working with files that will be only available to the device that wants to establish a connection with Mosquitto. As with previous commands, this command uses the -h option followed by the MQTT server host. In this case, we specify the IPv4 address of the computer that is running the Mosquitto MQTT server: 192.168.1.1. Notice that this value must match the IPv4 or IPv6 address that we specified...

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