How Can A Flask Web Server On Windows Use An Ssl Certificate From The Windows Certificate Store?

Most SSL examples for Flask require that the private key be on the file system. We find that insecure. How can Flask load the SSL certificate from the Windows certificate store?

Solution 1:

We solved by using IIS as a reverse proxy, as doced here:

https://developers.coveo.com/display/public/SearchREST/Configuring+HTTPS+Reverse+Proxy+in+IIS

and here

https://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/creating-a-reverse-proxy-with-url-rewrite-for-iis