As far as I know, I managed to convince them to take a patch to fix
this very thing for 0.9.7 (to use the app_verify_arg). I don't think
it's devolved back out, but I should check....Last I knew it was
in the 0.9.7 release track.

--d

Rich Salz wrote:
> We want to write our own cert verification routine, but we need to pass 
> our own data down into the routine.  No prob, the context has 
> app_verify_arg.  Hooray :) But it's unused. Boo :(
> 
> We don't want to diverge from the source if we don't have to. Should we 
> add a ex_callback function pointer that can be set, so it gets the 
> context and the app_verify_arg?  Should we just change the code so the 
> app_verify_arg is always passed in?  Are we the only ones asking for 
> this?  (I can't imagine; how do folks write their own verification?)
> 
> Hmm.  Let me step back a bit and ask the bigger question:  we have a 
> collection of certs, both CA certs and end-entity certs.  We want to 
> verify the SSL identity if it is either one of our trusted end-entities, 
> or signed by one of our CA's.  Is that easy to do using the current API?
>     /r$
> 
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