Adding a self-signed certificate to iphone Simulator?

Solution 1:

Just for Info, if someone still runs into that problem:

simply drag & drop your .cer Files into your running Simulator window. You'll see Safari flashing and then the import dialog for your Certificate (or Certificate Authority)...

Working for iOS 7 Simulator (and i Think did work for iOS 6 too).

Solution 2:

For those who find that the dragging and dropping of the certificate on the Simulator isn't working, there was a recent change that adds an extra step.

The Simulator must be explicitly told to trust the root CA. Do this by going to:

General -> About -> Certificate Trust Settings -> "Enable Full Trust for Root Certificate" for your particular certificate

See the full answer here:

Solution 3:

I had this same issue for months and today I FINALLY solved it with:

ADVTrustStore

You are going to want to use a project called ADVTrustStore from github. It does some fancy magic but it will correctly install certificates into your root trust-store on the simulator.

Steps to install a custom cert

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/ADVTOOLS/ADVTrustStore.git

# Enter the repo directory
cd ADVTrustStore/

# Copy your .crt file 
cp somewhere/something.crt my.crt

# conver to a .pem file
openssl x509 -in my.crt -out my.pem -outform PEM

# Install the pem in the simulators
./iosCertTrustManager.py -a my.pem

Using this process I was able to get GoogleStreetView images to render correctly while behind a corporate firewall using SSL resigning with self-signed certificates

Background

I was using CharlesProxy and i noticed it was correctly installing certificates into the Simulator but they did not show up in the Settings - Profiles section. Then after some searching I discovered this tool. There are probably a few other tools out there but in my case the drag-and-drop never worked correctly for all cases. Safari would be fine but not my applications.

Solution 4:

For anyone use OS X Catalina, please check this : https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/124056.

Catalina is currently blocking access to Desktop, Documents and Downloads folder. I moved certificate files to Shared folder and drag and drop the files to simulator from there.

Solution 5:

Take a look at the shell script Charles uses to install their self signed cert into the simulator's keychain. http://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/faqs/ssl-connections-from-within-iphone-applications/