On Sun, 1 May 2005, Bryan Henderson wrote:

> I have embellished the man page so I believe it's clear to people with less
> SSL background. The patch is attached.

Thanks a lot. I committed it immediately, as it was much better than the
previous description.

> I looked at the source code too, and it does not seem to implement
> verifyhost == 1 as documented. It seems to make verifyhost == 1 identical
> to verifyhost == 0 except for a debugging message when there's no Common
> Name.

You are right. That also indicates that no one has it set to 1 and actually
bothers about that...

I figure we should stop supporting the 1 value. It really doesn't add any
value to the verification.

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