On Mon, Nov 19, 2012, Kurt Roeckx wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 03:47:11PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the attached patch implements wildcard matching and introduces the
> > X509_CHECK_FLAG_NO_WILDCARDS flag to disable it if necessary.
> > 
> > In addition, it implements case-insensitive comparison of host names
> > and email address domain parts, as required by RFC 5280.  Domain
> > names and email addresses which contain NUL characters are now
> > rejected, to cope with some mis-issued certificates.
> 
> It would be nice if s_client would also did the hostname check.
> 

There is an option -checkhost in s_client that does this though currently you
have to explicitly pass the hostname to check as an argument.

Steve.
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Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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