[issue31997] SSL lib does not handle trailing dot (period) in hostname or certificate

Sam Napolitano <samnap+git...@gmail.com> added the comment: Sorry I wasn't able to get back to you sooner. If having a trailing dot in the cert is an RFC violation, then case 2 can be left alone. As for case 3, we can be more explicit: if hostname ends in a dot AND cert does n

[issue31997] SSL lib does not handle trailing dot (period) in hostname or certificate

New submission from Sam Napolitano <samnap+git...@gmail.com>: I recently came across an issue in the ssl library and have a simple fix to address it. When doing hostname verification against an X.509 certificate, a trailing dot (period) in the hostname is matched against the certi