On Tue, Jan 27, 2015, Serj wrote:

> Hi, Viktor.
> 
> 27.01.2015, 23:07, "Viktor Dukhovni" <openssl-us...@dukhovni.org>:
> > It is complete enough.  The word "mumble" is not meant to be taken
> 
> You full code from wiki is:
> 
>         const char *servername;
>       SSL *ssl;
>       X509_VERIFY_PARAM *param;
> 
>       servername = "www.example.com";
>       ssl = SSL_new(...);
>       param = SSL_get0_param(ssl);
> 
>       /* Enable automatic hostname checks */
>       X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_hostflags(param, 
> X509_CHECK_FLAG_NO_PARTIAL_WILDCARDS);
>       X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_host(param, servername, 0);
> 
>       /* Configure a non-zero callback if desired */
>       SSL_set_verify(ssl, SSL_VERIFY_PEER, 0);
> 
>       /*
>        * Establish SSL connection, hostname should be checked
>        * automatically test with a hostname that should not match,
>        * the connection will fail (unless you specify a callback
>        * that returns despite the verification failure.  In that
>        * case SSL_get_verify_status() can expose the problem after
>        * connection completion.
>        */
>        ...
> 
> You set here only "param":
>       X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_hostflags(param, 
> X509_CHECK_FLAG_NO_PARTIAL_WILDCARDS);
>       X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_host(param, servername, 0);
> 
> But how this variable is associated with "ssl" object or "ctx" object?
> I don't understand really! Please explain more in detail.
> 

It's this:

       param = SSL_get0_param(ssl);

Because SSL_get0_param retrieves the internal pointer to parameters used by 
ssl: so if you modify those parameters the modified versions will be used by
ssl.

Steve.
--
Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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