Can't connect to an AuraDB instance
ostnam opened this issue · comments
Hi,
I'm trying to connect to an AuraDB instance. I get different errors depending on the URI that I use:
- Using the default URI, that starts with "neo4j+s//", I get an IOError: "invalid port value".
- After appending ":7687" to the URI, I get a different IOError: "failed to lookup address information: Name or service not known".
- If I remove "neo4j+s//", I get another IOError: "early eof".
- If I also remove the port from the URI, I get a fourth IOError: "invalid socket address".
Is AuraDB currently supported by neo4rs? If so, how to connect to an AuraDB instance? I can connect to the same instance using cypher-shell, at port 7687 🤔
Hi @ostnam,
currently this driver does not support encrypted connections. All connection attempts are made with the implicit bolt:// scheme.
When you try to connect to neo4j+s://<id>.databases.neo4j.io:7687, it's like you would actually connect to bolt://neo4j+s://<id>.databases.neo4j.io:7687 so the neo4j+s part is parsed as hostname/address, hence the "failed to lookup address information".
Removing the neo4j+s:// would be the correct URI form, but it gives you the EOF error because we send an unencrypted message over a connection that tries to initiate the encryption first.
Unfortunately, since AuraDB is only available with encrypted connections, you cannot use this driver until we support encrypted connections. I opened a new issue to track this (#81). There is also the question of accepting URIs with a different scheme than bolt, before we can support AuraDB.
It looks like cypher shell 5+ has gone closed source, but the 4.x repo may be helpful neo4j+s.
Nevermind the go or other official driver is a better resource.
This works now. Starting in 0.6.2
I'm gonna close this issue for now since it's working now. If anything comes up, please open a new issue.