On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Benjamin Weibel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > first I want to thank you for the great work you did writing this > library! It really helps me a lot!
You're welcome. :) > I have been working on integrating openssl and writing an own > minimalistic dummy-HTTP-client when I discovered this awesome projekt > just in time. > > I work on a cross-platform library and that library has to communicate > with one specific HTTPS server. > To authenticate the server, we receive (in advance) an X509-certificate > to build into our software. > > I would like to ask you if it is possible to load one or more specific > CA-certificates for a HTTPS client connection (doesn't matter if from > file or from memory). > > I've already had a look at the source code and saw that the method > "https_sync_connection" takes a string-argument "certificate_filename", > but I saw no way to pass such a filename at the high-level-api. > Is this parameter solely used to load system-default CA-certificates? > If not, could you please explain to me how I can load a certificate from > file or memory? > Oops, that filename should actually be a list of filenames; also there should be a way in the server's constructor to pass the parameter properly into the connection objects. That has still yet to be done, but can actually be patched easily. I was in the middle of adding support for this when I moved my focus to the server side of the HTTP implementation. At any rate I'll see whether I can make that happen as soon as I get a better development machine than the one I have right now. > Thank you very much in advance and good luck with this project! > Thank you for the feedback too -- I'll look at adding this capability from the client constructor to allow for adding a range of filenames or even just areas in memory that point to the contents of the certificates. If you can, please file an issue over at https://github.com/cpp-netlib/cpp-netlib/issues so that I can keep track of this feature. > Greetings from Switzerland, > Greetings from the Philippines! Thanks Benjamin! -- Dean Michael Berris http://about.me/deanberris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Cpp-netlib-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cpp-netlib-devel
