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Re: [RFH/PATCH] imap-send: support SNI (RFC4366)

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 21, 2013, 05:35 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> To talk to a site that serves multiple names on a single IP address,
> the client needs to ask for the specific hostname it wants to talk
> to. Otherwise, the default certificate returned from the IP address
> may not match that of the host we wanted to talk to.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> ---
>
>  * I need help from people on this patch in two areas:
>
>  (1) I only tested this patch by connecting to https://googlemail.com/ 
>      with
> ...
>      I would appreciate it if somebody knows an imap server that
>      needs SNI and runs an end-to-end test against that server.
> 
>  (2) I do not know if everybody has SSL_set_tslext_host_name() macro
>      defined, so this patch may be breaking build for people with
>      different versions of OpenSSL.

What I queued for tonight replaces the posted patch with this version in order to address (2) above.

-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] imap-send: support SNI (RFC4366)

To talk with some sites that serve multiple names on a single IP address, the client needs to ask for the specific host it wants to talk to.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 imap-send.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/imap-send.c b/imap-send.c
index 171c887..ab2098a 100644
--- a/imap-send.c
+++ b/imap-send.c
@@ -370,6 +370,17 @@ static int ssl_socket_connect(struct imap_socket *sock, int use_tls_only, int ve
 		return -1;
 	}
 
+#ifdef SSL_CTRL_SET_TLSEXT_HOSTNAME
+	/*
+	 * SNI (RFC4366)
+	 * OpenSSL does not document this function, but the implementation
+	 * returns 1 on success, 0 on failure after calling SSLerr().
+	 */
+	ret = SSL_set_tlsext_host_name(sock->ssl, server.host);
+	if (ret != 1)
+		warning("SSL_set_tslext_host_name(%s) failed.\n", server.host);
+#endif
+
 	ret = SSL_connect(sock->ssl);
 	if (ret <= 0) {
 		socket_perror("SSL_connect", sock, ret);
-- 
1.8.2.rc0.127.g4d5d7da
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