Hi William, Sorry for late response.. I appreciate your response. Small clarification: You meant to say, with space as delimiter, httpd parses will consider space separated tokens as each individual httpd directives?
With Regards, Venkatesh On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 7:03 PM, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > A good argument for following httpd documented convention. > > If you want to continue exploring, you would want to quote the cipher > string, since httpd would take apart unquotes, space separated tokens as > different httpd directive arguments, and you surely don't want that. > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018, 20:05 alchemist vk <alchemist...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> openssl standard says " The cipher list consists of one or more *cipher >> strings* separated by colons. Commas or spaces are also acceptable >> separators but colons are normally used". But apache says "directive >> uses a *colon-separated* *cipher-spec* string consisting of OpenSSL >> cipher specifications to configure the Cipher Suite the client is permitted >> to negotiate in the SSL handshake phase" in https://httpd.apache.org/ >> docs/2.4/mod/mod_ssl.html. >> >> >> So, when I configured apache by separating cipher string with spaces, >> cipher string has no affect. But when cipher string is configured with >> colons, cipher string has effect. >> >> >> So, please provide clarification, is there any limitation why we can’t >> configure cipher string by using space as delimiter in apache. >> >> >> PS: I am using 2.4 apache version in Linux OS. >> >> With Regards, >> Venkatesh >> >