RFR: 8044609: javax.net.debug options not working and documented as expected [v4]

[Bradford Wetmore]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:39:27 GMT, Sean Coffey <coffeys at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The `javax.net.debug` TLS debug option is buggy since TLSv1.3 implementation was introduced many years ago.
>> 
>> Where "ssl" was previously a value to obtain all TLS debug traces (except network type dumps, verbose data), it now prints only a few lines for a standard client TLS connection. 
>> 
>> The property parsing was also lax and allowed users to declare verbose logging options by themselves where the documentation stated that such verbose options were only meant to be used in conjunction with other TLS options :
>> 
>> 
>>         System.err.println("help           print the help messages");
>>         System.err.println("expand         expand debugging information");
>>         System.err.println();
>>         System.err.println("all            turn on all debugging");
>>         System.err.println("ssl            turn on ssl debugging");
>>         System.err.println();
>>         System.err.println("The following can be used with ssl:");
>>         System.err.println("\trecord       enable per-record tracing");
>>         System.err.println("\thandshake    print each handshake message");
>>         System.err.println("\tkeygen       print key generation data");
>>         System.err.println("\tsession      print session activity");
>>         System.err.println("\tdefaultctx   print default SSL initialization");
>>         System.err.println("\tsslctx       print SSLContext tracing");
>>         System.err.println("\tsessioncache print session cache tracing");
>>         System.err.println("\tkeymanager   print key manager tracing");
>>         System.err.println("\ttrustmanager print trust manager tracing");
>>         System.err.println("\tpluggability print pluggability tracing");
>>         System.err.println();
>>         System.err.println("\thandshake debugging can be widened with:");
>>         System.err.println("\tdata         hex dump of each handshake message");
>>         System.err.println("\tverbose      verbose handshake message printing");
>>         System.err.println();
>>         System.err.println("\trecord debugging can be widened with:");
>>         System.err.println("\tplaintext    hex dump of record plaintext");
>>         System.err.println("\tpacket       print raw SSL/TLS packets");
>> 
>> 
>> as part of this patch, I've also moved the log call to the more performant friendly `System.Logger#log(java.lang.System.Logger.Level,java.util.function.Supplier)` method. 
>> 
>> the output has changed slightly with respect to that  - less verbose
>> 
>> e.g. old...
>
> Sean Coffey has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains nine additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge branch 'master' into 8044609-ssl
>  - Merge branch 'master' into 8044609-ssl
>  - all ssl mode only if ssl specified by itself
>  - Merge branch 'master' into 8044609-ssl
>  - indentation
>  - Allow ssl,<option> type syntax as currently done. Improve test case coverage
>  - Tighten up ssl parsing
>  - remove file
>  - Initial commit

src/java.base/share/classes/sun/security/ssl/SSLLogger.java line 104:

> 102:         System.err.println("\thandshake    print each handshake message");
> 103:         System.err.println("\tkeymanager   print key manager tracing");
> 104:         System.err.println("\tpluggability print pluggability tracing");

Shouldn't this just be removed completely, or marked with "(obsolete)" and moved to the bottom?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18764#discussion_r1742931923