RE: cert chain out of order breaks openssl

2012-02-14 Thread Erik Tkal
The SSL specification indicates that the ServerCertificate message should contain: certificate_list: This is a sequence (chain) of X.509.v3 certificates, ordered with the sender's certificate first followed by any certificate authority certificates proceeding sequentially

Re: cert chain out of order breaks openssl

2012-02-14 Thread Timothy Kay
Erik, Thanks for the pointer. It's very helpful. HOWEVER, I can give you dozens of different sites that do it wrong, yet they all work in the browsers. Clearly that particular part of the spec is no longer relevant, and openssl should be updated. It's not a complicated fix, after all. What's

Re: cert chain out of order breaks openssl

2012-02-14 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Timothy Kay tim...@not.com wrote: Thanks for the pointer. It's very helpful. HOWEVER, I can give you dozens of different sites that do it wrong, yet they all work in the browsers. Clearly that particular part of the spec is no longer relevant, and openssl

Re: cert chain out of order breaks openssl

2012-02-14 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012, Timothy Kay wrote: Erik, Thanks for the pointer. It's very helpful. HOWEVER, I can give you dozens of different sites that do it wrong, yet they all work in the browsers. Clearly that particular part of the spec is no longer relevant, and openssl should be updated.

Re: cert chain out of order breaks openssl

2012-02-14 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012, Timothy Kay wrote: We have been baffled for a long time that curl cannot access websites that work just fine in the browser (unless we use --insecure, of course). The curl documentation points you to http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html, which explains that your server