test: move os.stat check before the hcc creation

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/client/httpclient.go b/client/httpclient.go
index fceb0f4..a2ecfd0 100644
--- a/client/httpclient.go
+++ b/client/httpclient.go
@@ -74,6 +74,13 @@ func NewHTTPClientWithOpts(gitlabURL, gitlabRelativeURLRoot, caFile, caPath stri
 	} else if strings.HasPrefix(gitlabURL, httpProtocol) {
 		transport, host = buildHttpTransport(gitlabURL)
 	} else if strings.HasPrefix(gitlabURL, httpsProtocol) {
+		if _, err := os.Stat(caFile); err != nil {
+			if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot find cafile '%s': %w", caFile, ErrCafileNotFound)
+			}
+			return nil, err
+		}
+
 		hcc := &httpClientCfg{
 			caFile: caFile,
 			caPath: caPath,
@@ -83,13 +90,6 @@ func NewHTTPClientWithOpts(gitlabURL, gitlabRelativeURLRoot, caFile, caPath stri
 			opt(hcc)
 		}
 
-		if _, err := os.Stat(caFile); err != nil {
-			if os.IsNotExist(err) {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot find cafile '%s': %w", caFile, ErrCafileNotFound)
-			}
-			return nil, err
-		}
-
 		transport, host, err = buildHttpsTransport(*hcc, selfSignedCert, gitlabURL)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err