CURLOPT_SSL_OPTIONS: added

Allow an appliction to set libcurl specific SSL options. The first and
only options supported right now is CURLSSLOPT_ALLOW_BEAST.

It will make libcurl to disable any work-arounds the underlying SSL
library may have to address a known security flaw in the SSL3 and TLS1.0
protocol versions.

This is a reaction to us unconditionally removing that behavior after
this security advisory:

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20120124B.html

... it did however cause a lot of programs to fail because of old
servers not liking this work-around. Now programs can opt to decrease
the security in order to interoperate with old servers better.
This commit is contained in:
Daniel Stenberg
2012-02-06 22:12:06 +01:00
parent 2a266c1c7c
commit 2a699bc6e9
6 changed files with 40 additions and 6 deletions

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@@ -673,6 +673,15 @@ typedef enum {
CURLUSESSL_LAST /* not an option, never use */
} curl_usessl;
/* Definition of bits for the CURLOPT_SSL_OPTIONS argument: */
/* - ALLOW_BEAST tells libcurl to allow the BEAST SSL vulnerability in the
name of improving interoperability with older servers. Some SSL libraries
have introduced work-arounds for this flaw but those work-arounds sometimes
make the SSL communication fail. To regain functionality with those broken
servers, a user can this way allow the vulnerability back. */
#define CURLSSLOPT_ALLOW_BEAST (1<<0)
#ifndef CURL_NO_OLDIES /* define this to test if your app builds with all
the obsolete stuff removed! */
@@ -1506,6 +1515,9 @@ typedef enum {
CINIT(TCP_KEEPIDLE, LONG, 214),
CINIT(TCP_KEEPINTVL, LONG, 215),
/* Enable/disable specific SSL features with a bitmask, see CURLSSLOPT_* */
CINIT(SSL_OPTIONS, LONG, 216),
CURLOPT_LASTENTRY /* the last unused */
} CURLoption;