Re: patch SSL certificate warning

Matt Bodley wrote:
> Stefan Küng wrote:
>> Matt Bodley wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am wondering whether anyone is working on fixing the "hostname does
>>> not match" warning when a hostname such as
>>> "xxx.secondlevel.domain.com" is accessed with an SSL Cert authorized
>>> for "*.domain.com".
>>>
>>> This is an interesting issue as FireFox has responded accordingly,
>>> and treats the above as valid, but Internet Explorer doesn't yet.
>>>
>>> Because, really, it should behave like FireFox....
>>
>> That would have to be done in the Subversion library, not TSVN.
>>
>> Stefan
>>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I'm not well versed on the details of the TSVN code, when you mean
> library, are you referring to higher level libraries or core libraries
> such as the OpenSSL.
>
> I assume TSVN uses OpenSSL, is this right? And would this be solely
> responsible for the issue noted above, or would there be some other
> library/code that could also affect this?

This would have to be done in the Subversion library. That's the one
deciding whether a certificate is valid or not.

Stefan

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