When a certificate is bogus, ZE hangs

[gejohnston]

Describe the bug

When an invalid certificate file is used to make a request of either zosmf or APIML, ZE hangs indefinitely.

To Reproduce

• Create a certificate file named badCertFile.txt with the contents "badCertFile.txt".
• Create a certificate key file named badCertKeyFile.txt with the contents "badCertKeyFile.txt".
• Configure your zowe.config.json file to supply only that certificate authentication.
• Search for a dataset through an available profile.
• ZE hangs indefinitely with no message.
• Setting low values on Request Timeout and Socket Connect Timeout has no effect.
• To stop the hang-up, I reload the window.

Expected behavior

I would expect to get an error that the certificate is invalid.
FYI - a Zowe CLI command against the same zowe.config.json file gives this result:

zowe zos-files list data-set "SYS1.PARMLIB*" --zosmf-profile zosmf_thru_apiml
Unable to perform this operation due to the following problem.
error:0480006C:PEM routines::no start line

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[JillieBeanSim]

with some investigation I can reproduce the issue and see the error isn't caught with the tree.reveal action on filter search.
I do see that we are automatically setting cert auth as active with checkProfile, but we could use Node.js's built-in crypto module
offered via search

const { X509Certificate } = require('crypto');
const fs = require('fs');

try {
  const certFile = fs.readFileSync('/path/to/your/certificate.pem');
  const x509 = new X509Certificate(certFile);

  const expiryDate = new Date(x509.validTo);
  const currentDate = new Date();

  if (currentDate > expiryDate) {
    console.log('Certificate has expired.');
  } else {
    console.log('Certificate is valid and not expired.');
  }

} catch (e) {
  console.error('Error reading or parsing certificate:', e.message || e);
}