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Re: svn commit: r1572105 - in /subversion/trunk/subversion: svn/auth-cmd.c svn/cl.h svn/svn.c tests/cmdline/getopt_tests_data/svn--help_stdout tests/cmdline/getopt_tests_data/svn_help_stdout

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_apache.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:31:31 +0100

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 01:26:38PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> I think we should get the serf project to issue a new set of
> serf releases with a fix for this issue, for all actively
> maintained serf-1.x branches that Subversion can be used with.
>
> I don't see a better way. We decided long ago that we should use
> the serf cert parsing API instead of using OpenSSL directly.
> When I rewrote the cert parsing code to use serf, I was told that
> the serf API works fine. The only workaround we could use in svn
> is to depend on OpenSSL or implement our own X509 parser (no thanks).

Another idea: we could also disable the 'svn auth' cert parsing feature
on windows unless a particular serf version is used which contains the fix.
The fallback case of just printing base64-encoded cert data already exists.
Received on 2014-02-27 13:32:09 CET

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