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Re: Server certificate validation

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 13:06:37 +0200 (MET DST)

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Bram Whillock wrote:

> It seems that the curl library provides functionality only to verify
> a peer certificate via some pre-existing CA directives, but doesn't provide
> functionality to do any extended handling of the certificate the server
> returns to the client during the ssl handshake. I need to have the ability
> to do prompt the user to save new certificates, as well as to tell when a
> known certificate may have changed (man in the middle attack perhaps).
> I'd like to add the feature to the curl library to do a callback to a
> user-defined function(int callback(SSL*) perhaps) to override the default
> certificate behavior. I was wondering if anyone is or is planning to do
> anything of this sort. Thanks.

I think it sounds like a good idea to add such a callback. I am not aware of
anyone else having this intention.

Let me know if you need info on any details!

-- 
  Cheers,
  Daniel Stenberg
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Received on 2002-07-26