Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think this is a good idea. The protocol exactly specifies which > certificates should be present. It does not allow any kind of additional > information to be present so by providing it you violate the protocol.
RFC documents are not set in stone. Quite the opposite, their sole purpose is to enable interoperability. So if breaking the rules is good for interoperability the RFC should be changed in the first place. Back to the original discussion. FF, chrome and even IE do not care about the unnecessary certificates at all. > On the practical side, a simpler parser allows for simpler code and > thus less bugs. *granted* Sven -- "Der wichtigste Aspekt, den Sie vor der Entscheidung für ein Open Source-Betriebssystem bedenken sollten, ist, dass Sie kein Windows-Betriebssystem erhalten." (von http://www.dell.de/ubuntu) /me is giggls@ircnet, http://sven.gegg.us/ on the Web _______________________________________________ Help-gnutls mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnutls
