[sword-devel] MiTM

Jaak Ristioja jaak at ristioja.ee
Sun Sep 18 11:02:53 MST 2016


Looking at the source it looks more like its used for FTP instead :)

https://github.com/bibletime/crosswire-sword-mirror/blob/trunk/src/mgr/curlhttpt.cpp

J

On 18.09.2016 20:55, Greg Hellings wrote:
> https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER.html
> 
> Is curlhttpt.c used for HTTPS? I don't have the source in front of me,
> but that name suggests it is only for the raw HTTP connection.
> 
> --Greg
> 
> 
> On Sep 18, 2016 12:05 PM, "DM Smith" <dmsmith at crosswire.org
> <mailto:dmsmith at crosswire.org>> wrote:
> 
>     I'll look into it. 
> 
> 
>     On Sep 18, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Jaak Ristioja <jaak at ristioja.ee
>     <mailto:jaak at ristioja.ee>> wrote:
> 
>>     Hi!
>>
>>     In src/mgr/curlhttpt.cpp:
>>
>>        /* Disable checking host certificate */
>>        curl_easy_setopt(session, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
>>
>>     Why? Afaik this allows the use of self-signed certificates for MiTM.
>>
>>     Best regards,
>>     J
>>
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