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Ticket UUID: f696bc85f8b91d263f5bf4c5bbd261bd252c46a0
Title: Client side verification of SSL server certificates should use system wide default CAs
Status: Fixed Type: Feature_Request
Severity: Minor Priority:
Subsystem: Resolution: Fixed
Last Modified: 2010-10-06 12:15:50
Version Found In: fb5f0c2580
Description & Comments:
Most installations of OpenSSL come with a system wide directory of default certificate authorities and most applications using OpenSSL make use of this certificate store during server certificate verification, which is handy because a system administrator only has to manage one central store of acceptable certificate authorities.

Fossil presently doesn't use the system wide CA certificate store, but I think it should :-) The necessary change is only one line of code:

Index: src/http_ssl.c
===================================================================
--- src/http_ssl.c
+++ src/http_ssl.c
@@ -90,10 +90,11 @@
     SSL_library_init();
     SSL_load_error_strings();
     ERR_load_BIO_strings();
     OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms();
     sslCtx = SSL_CTX_new(SSLv23_client_method());
+    X509_STORE_set_default_paths(SSL_CTX_get_cert_store(sslCtx));
     sslIsInit = 1;
   }
 }
 
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