Issue #6735
Updated by bmbouter almost 4 years ago
## Background
The BaseRemote.ca_cert and BaseRemote.client_cert fields the current serializers tell the user "All new line characters must be escaped". You can see that [here](https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/blob/master/pulpcore/app/serializers/repository.py#L54-L71).
There are two issues with this:
1. It's not needed. For example pulp-certguard allows users to submit certs without modification, they are saved in the database, and openssl uses them correctly.
2. It's extra work for users.
## Solution
1. Update the serializers to not have newlines escaped
2. Audit the handling of these fields throughout the code and remove any "unescaping" that is done
3. Add a `.removal` release note indicating this is a breaking change and users will need to re-save their ca_cert and client_cert fields
4. Audit client_key as well just for good measure
5. Add a test that sync's content where a ca_cert is required
6. Add a test that sync's content where a client_cert and client_key is required
## How to add these tests?
These tests will use the Red Hat CDN and will use a test certificate and key registered to pulp-infra, along with the master ca_cert of the Red Hat CDN. The test certs will be stored as a Travis secret and made available to the tests via environment variables. If the test goes to run and the environment variables are not present the test should skip.
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