Re: digicert ocsp change

Joe Orton <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 08:55:54PM +0200, Ruediger Pluem wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/3/25 5:49 PM, Stefan Eissing via dev wrote:
> > https://docs.digicert.com/en/whats-new/change-log/certcentral-change-log.html#digicert-ending-support-for-http-1-0-connections-for-ocsp-and-crl-certificate-status-verification-checks-619426
> 
> Thanks for the heads up.
> 
> > 
> > On rather short notice, they switch off HTTP/1.0 in their OCSP responder. That means our implementation of stapling in mod_ssl will no longer work, I assume.
> 
> Agreed. But as HTTP/1.1 is still accepted and we already set a host 
> and connection header it should be easy to fix:

That HTTP client doesn't support chunked transfer-coding, so it cannot 
declare HTTP/1.1 conformance like this. Some irony in their statement as 
well, since most of the desync attacks are against HTTP/1.1 features 
rather than 1.0 features?

Regards, Joe
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