[7u6] request for approval, 7166570: JSSE certificate validation has started to fail for certificate chains

[Edvard Wendelin]

Approved.

On 05/09/2012 03:42 AM, Xuelei Fan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a request to backport a JDK 8 fix into JDK 7u6:
>       7166570: JSSE certificate validation has started to fail for
> certificate chains
>
> The fix has already been pushed to JDK 8:
>       http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/0f63f3390ac9
>
> The code changes for jdk7u6 are identical to the ones in jdk8.
>
> We need to backport the fix so that the certificate validation works as
> expected. The impact of the bug is significant, some applications relies
> on the validation may not work without the fix.
>
> I intend to push it to
>       ssh://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev-gate/jdk
>
> Regards,
> Xuelei