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Re: SSL Error

From: Nick <nospam_at_codesniffer.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:29:17 -0500

Thanks for your help Stefan.

I tried your suggestions (using the 1.6.11 svn CLI on windows and
specifying the --non-interactive --trust-server-cert options), but
neither worked.

Fortunately, when I tried the latest svn CLI (1.6.15), it functioned
just like the linux CLI (asking me to accept the certificate validation
error) and then the operation succeeded.

The problem still exists in the latest version of TortoiseSVN (which
claims to be linked against svn 1.6.15), but I will take that up w/ the
TortoiseSVN folks.

Thanks again!

Nick

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 19:17 +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 09:34:05AM -0500, Nick wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > At some point in the last year I stopped being able to access my SVN
> > repository remotely via https using the SVN CLI and TortoiseSVN on
> > Windows. Unfortunately since I hadn't used svn on my windows machine
> > for a long time (many months), I cannot give a more accurate timeframe.
> >
> > The error I get when I try to checkout via the svn.exe CLI is (I masked
> > my domain & path):
> >
> > c:\ svn.exe checkout https://<mydomain>.com/<path>
> > svn: OPTIONS of 'https://<mydomain>.com/<path>':
> > SSL negotiation failed: SSL error code -1/1/336032856
> > (https://<mydomain>.com)
> >
> > My svn server is running via Apache. Client and server are both version
> > is 1.6.13. The web server is using openssl 1.0.0c.
> >
> > I am able to checkout and access my repository fine from another linux
> > client via the same domain name. And on Windows, I can browse the
> > repository with Firefox. But in both of these cases, the linux svn CLI
> > and Firefox both prompt that the SSL certificate is risky/invalid for a
> > couple reasons: it's self-signed and reflects a different host than the
> > domain I'm actually connecting to. This is because the SSL certificate
> > reflects my server's internal hostname (for reasons I won't get into
> > here) rather than the public domain name. So for both the linux client
> > and Firefox I had to explicitly accept this discrepancy.
> >
> > The linux svn CLI yields this:
> > # svn checkout https://<mydomain>.com/<path>
> > Error validating server certificate for 'https://<mydomain>.com:443':
> > - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the
> > fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!
> > - The certificate hostname does not match.
> > Certificate information:
> > - Hostname: nimble
> > - Valid: from Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:14:36 GMT until Fri, 13 Mar 2020
> > 02:14:36 GMT
> > - Issuer: <me>
> > - Fingerprint:
> > 50:2b:50:a5:75:61:ae:f2:a0:d2:44:4f:12:6b:d3:6e:f8:c5:4b:12
> > (R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently?
> >
> > And if I accept this validation error, everything works properly.
> >
> > So I wonder if the error I'm getting from the Windows svn.exe is related
> > to my risky/invalid certificate. So one question I have is: how do I
> > instruct svn to accept the certificate even though it's not completely
> > valid?
>
> Maybe it is related to this change released in June 2010 in 1.6.12:
>
> * check for server certificate revocation on Windows (r898048)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r898048 | rhuijben | 2010-01-11 21:13:13 +0100 (Mon, 11 Jan 2010) | 10 lines
>
> Extend the (Windows only) ssl server certificate validation via cryptoapi
> with a certificate revocation check. Also use a proper certificate chain
> verification, before trusting the certificate as valid instead of just
> parsing the certificate status ourselves.
>
> * subversion/libsvn_subr/win32_crypto.c
> (windows_validate_certificate): Add revocation check flag and verify the
> certificate chain as a ssl chain instead of reading the status of the
> leave certificate ourselves.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Does Windows perhaps believe that the certificate has been revoked
> for some reason? I cannot think of any other reason.
>
> Does it work if you try versions older than 1.6.12?
>
> > Any other suggestions?
>
> Try this:
> svn checkout --non-interactive --trust-server-cert https://<mydomain>.com/<path>
>
> Stefan
Received on 2010-12-17 13:30:27 CET

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