trust-tasks-https

HTTPS transport binding for the Trust Tasks framework. A typed HttpsClient (reqwest) and an axum-based HttpsServer that together implement SPEC.md §9 over HTTP/1.1 with bearer-token identity authentication — enough for demos, mockups, and end-to-end testing without standing up mTLS or DIDComm.

Binding URI

https://trusttasks.org/binding/https/0.2

On the wire

POST /trust-tasks HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer <token>

{
  "id": "...",
  "type": "https://trusttasks.org/spec/acl/grant/0.1",
  "issuer": "did:web:org.example",
  "recipient": "did:web:maintainer.example",
  "issuedAt": "2026-05-17T10:00:00Z",
  "payload": { ... }
}

The server maps <token> to a VID, runs the §7.2 consumer-side validation pipeline (cross-checking the in-band issuer against the authenticated sender per §4.8.1), and dispatches the document to the handler registered for its type URI. Success responses return as #response-variant documents inside an HTTP 200 body. Failures return as trust-task-error documents with the status mapping documented in status.rs.

Security defaults

The binding specification is explicit that it "does not permit proof to be omitted": a bearer token authenticates whoever presents it to whatever terminates TLS, which is not the same party as whoever composed the document. The runtime enforces that:

Optionally, .allowed_did_methods(["key"]) pre-screens proof.verificationMethod before the verifier resolves it, and HttpsClient::builder().with_response_verifier(..) requires signed responses.

Quickstart

Server:

use trust_tasks_https::{BearerAuth, HttpsServer};
use trust_tasks_rs::specs::acl::grant;

let server = HttpsServer::builder()
    .local_vid("did:web:maintainer.example")
    .with_auth(BearerAuth::from_pairs([
        ("alice", "did:web:alice.example"),
    ]))
    .on::<grant::v0_1::Payload, grant::v0_1::Response, _>(|req, _ctx| {
        Ok(grant::v0_1::Response { entry: req.payload.entry.clone() })
    })
    .build();

server.serve("127.0.0.1:3000").await?;

Client:

use trust_tasks_https::HttpsClient;
use trust_tasks_rs::{specs::acl::grant, TrustTask};

let client = HttpsClient::builder()
    .server_url("http://localhost:3000")
    .server_vid("did:web:maintainer.example")
    .my_vid("did:web:alice.example")
    .my_token("alice")
    .build()?;

let req = TrustTask::for_payload("urn:uuid:...", grant::v0_1::Payload { ... });
let resp: TrustTask<grant::v0_1::Response> = client.send(req).await?;

Demo

A working end-to-end demo lives in examples/. In one terminal:

cargo run -p trust-tasks-https --example server_demo

In another:

cargo run -p trust-tasks-https --example client_demo

The client issues an acl/grant request as did:web:alice.example over the alice bearer token; the server's handler accepts it and the client prints the #response document.

Cargo features

A producer-only binary can disable server; a consumer-only binary can disable client.

TLS

The crate's name says HTTPS but the server- and client-side examples use plain HTTP localhost for ergonomic local testing. For production use, terminate TLS in front of the axum server (a reverse proxy is the easiest path; axum-server with rustls works for native termination) and configure reqwest with the appropriate root-CA bundle. The framework's §6.1 requirement that type URIs use https is independent of the transport you carry the document over.

Security notes

The bearer-auth model in this crate is intentionally simple, intended for demos and end-to-end testing. Production deployments SHOULD plug in a real Auth implementation backed by a token-issuing identity provider, JWT verification, or peer-certificate validation. Several of the framework-level security properties (audience binding, identity-mismatch routing, retry semantics, error-message sanitisation) are enforced regardless of which Auth you use; see SPEC.md §10 and trust-tasks-rs.