Re: [PATCH] Log details for client certificate failures

Hi,

On 2022-07-19 09:07:31 -0700, Jacob Champion wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 4:45 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > On 2022-07-15 14:51:38 -0700, Jacob Champion wrote:
> > > That seems much worse than escaping for this particular patch; if your
> > > cert's Common Name is in (non-ASCII) UTF-8 then all you'll see is
> > > "CN=?????????" in the log lines that were supposed to be helping you
> > > root-cause. Escaping would be much more helpful in this case.
> >
> > I'm doubtful that's all that common.
>
> Probably not, but the more systems that support it without weird
> usability bugs, the more common it will hopefully become.
>
> > But either way, I suggest a separate patch to deal with that...
>
> Proposed fix attached, which uses \x-escaping for bytes outside of
> printable ASCII.

I don't think this should be open coded in the ssl part of the code. IMO this
should replace the existing ascii escape function instead. I strongly oppose
open coding this functionality in prepare_cert_name().

Greetings,

Andres Freund