Re: Bug in SSL.Context.load_verify_locations ?

Ng Pheng Siong <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.cryptography
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 11:52:26AM +0100, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> I think this is beacuse of:
>
>     def load_verify_locations(self, cafile=None, capath=None):
>         return m2.ssl_ctx_load_verify_locations(self.ctx, cafile, capath or '')
>
> You are passing an empty string to X509_STORE_load_locations, when it
> should be NULL instead.

Oops.

> Also it might be nice if m2crypto threw an exception when OpenSSL
> reported an error.

Yes, that's the general intention. When it does not, that usually indicates
a bug.

Thanks for the note.

(As mentioned on my blog, I'm looking into putting up a public code
repository for M2Crypto. I hope that will reduce the turnaround time on bug
fixes.)

Cheers.

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