On Monday 22 October 2007, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> No, I'm running a default Apache install with mod_ssl.
>
> I finally ended up looking at elinks's source to see how it sets up gnutls.
> It turned out that I needed to create a gnutls_certificate_credentials_t
> using gnutls_certificate_allocate_credentials(), and put it into the
> session using gnutls_credentials_set(). Once I did that, the example given
> in the info docs worked correctly, both with my stock Apache, and other
> external SSL servers.
> I am NOT using X.509 authentication, I'm running just a basic,
> plain-vanilla Apache+mod_ssl, using a self-signed test cert, without any
> X.509
> authentication set up. 

The default apache with mod_ssl, as well as every other HTTPS server, do X.509 
authentication. Elinks is not a good example to check. It doesn't check any 
certificate eventhough it uses authenticated ciphersuites.

Check the examples in the gnutls documentation.


regards,
Nikos


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