On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 7:34 AM, Stefan Eissing
> <stefan.eiss...@greenbytes.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Am 24.05.2018 um 13:28 schrieb Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 7:23 AM, Stefan Eissing
>>> <stefan.eiss...@greenbytes.de> wrote:
>>>> Do we have a configuration option to allow https://hostname/ only to 
>>>> matching vhosts without any default fallback?
>>>>
>>>> Scenario:
>>>> - a site with vhost A and B
>>>> - vhost B is taken out, DNS still points there (for a while)
>>>> - browsers opening https://B/ will get the certificate of A and complain
>>>>
>>>> I do not want to present a "wrong" certificate, I want the SSL connection 
>>>> to fail. Does that make sense?
>>>
>>> I don't think it exists for SSL or non-SSL today -- you have to
>>> capture them in the first-listed VH for a address/port combo.
>>
>> Which, in case of SSL, needs to present a certificate that does not match 
>> and browsers issue their "not trustworthy" warnings. Where, in reality (ha, 
>> reality on the internet!) the site does not exist and it is impossible to 
>> make a secure connection to it.
>>
>> So, we are lacking an option here to abort SSL connections without a vhost 
>> match, it seems. Something like
>>
>> SSLStrictSNIVHostCheck require-match
>
> a more user oriented option:
>
> SSLUseDefaultCertificate OFF|ON
> Default: ON
> When the server cannot find a matching virtual host for an SSL
> request, it will uses the certificate configured in the default
> virtual host for an address:port combination. Setting this directive
> to OFF will instead { abort the connection, send an alert, halt and
> catch fire}.

That'd work (and looks better than Stefan's SNI oriented proposal),
but I wish we had something working for non-SSL vhosts too,
UseDefaultVHost OFF|ON?

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