Re: A solution to the SSL customizing problem

From: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>
To: Markus Schaber <schabios(at)logi-track(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: A solution to the SSL customizing problem
Date: 2004-10-15 19:49:06
Message-ID: 417029B2.6070704@opencloud.com
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Markus Schaber wrote:
> Hi, Oliver,
>
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:28:02 +1300
> Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
>>Why exactly would a SSLSocketFactory implementation need to know the
>>original URL?
>
>
> At least, it should know the original hostname for comparison to the one in the
> certificate, to avoid host spoofing.

We already preserve the hostname & port and give them to
SSLSocketFactory.createSocket().

-O

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