[RFR] 8214440: ldap over a TLS connection negotiate failed with "javax.net.ssl.SSLPeerUnverifiedException: hostname of the server '' does not match the hostname in the server's certificate"

Rob McKenna rob.mckenna at oracle.com
Wed Jan 9 16:09:15 UTC 2019


The parameter can be null, but if you look at the spec for getDomainName
it details the behaviour when the result is created with a null value.

I would rather avoid changing the spec at this point so I plan to stick
with this approach. (I'll switch the "".equals for isEmpty - thanks for
that)

    -Rob

On 09/01/19 12:33, vyom tewari wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> Thanks for fixing this issue, please use hostname.isEmpty(), instead of
> "".equal(hostname). I have a question to you, why we are converting null to
> empty string("") in LdapDnsProvider ?.
> 
> If you see the java doc it tells that domainname can be null
> 
> /**
>      * Construct an LdapDnsProviderResult consisting of a resolved domain
> name
>      * and the ldap server endpoints that serve the domain.
>      *
>      * @param domainName    the resolved domain name; can be null.
> 
> My personal suggestion is not to replace null to empty string("") in
> "LdapDnsProviderResult" either throw some exception or just pass whatever
> you got in LdapDnsProviderResult constructor.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vyom
> 
> On 08/01/19 10:33 PM, Rob McKenna wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I'd like to fix this test failure caused by 8160768.
> > 
> > The problem is that the LdapDnsProviderResult sets the hostname to the
> > empty String and gets passed to StartTlsResponseImpl.verify.
> > Unfortunately StartTlsResponseImpl.verify only expects null values.
> > Since null and the empty String are functionally equivalent I've added a
> > check to StartTlsResponseImpl.verify to take the empty String into
> > account.
> > 
> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~robm/8214440/webrev.01/
> > 
> > This was caught by an existing test which I managed to miss in my
> > testing incantation.
> > 
> >      -Rob
> > 


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