[ruby-core:29528] [Bug #3150] net/https peer verification doesn't do anything

Bug #3150: net/https peer verification doesn't do anything
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3150

Author: Hongli Lai
Status: Open, Priority: High
ruby -v: ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-08 patchlevel 173) [universal-darwin10.0]

Setting verify_mode to VERIFY_PEER should make net/https raise an exception if peer certificate verification fails. For example:

   require 'net/http'
   require 'net/https'
   require 'openssl'

   url = URI.parse("https://bugzilla.redhat.com/")
   http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
   http.use_ssl = true
   http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER

   http.verify_callback = proc do |preverify_ok, ssl_context|
     puts "verification succeeded: #{preverify_ok}"
   end

   request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url.path)
   response = http.request(request)   # Should raise error

Expected output:

   $ ruby ssltest.rb 
   verification succeeded: false
   .../lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:586:in `connect': certificate verify failed (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)

Actual output:

   $ ruby ssltest.rb
   verification succeeded: false
   (no exception raised)

Either net/https is broken, or OpenSSL is broken, or OpenSSL changed some default behavior.
I can reproduce the problem OS X Snow Leopard with OpenSSL 0.9.8k and the following Ruby versions:
- ruby 1.8.6 (2010-02-05 patchlevel 399) [i686-darwin10.3.0]
- ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-08 patchlevel 173) [universal-darwin10.0]
- ruby 1.9.1p376 (2009-12-07 revision 26041) [i386-darwin10.2.0]
- ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-04-09 trunk 27271) [x86_64-darwin10.3.0]

The problem does not occur on Debian Linux 5 with OpenSSL 0.9.8g and the following Ruby versions:
- ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i686-linux]

I don't know whether 1.8.6-p287 exhibits the problem on Snow Leopard, it fails to compile with the following errors:

gcc -I. -I../.. -I../../. -I../.././ext/openssl -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\"extconf.h\"   -fno-common -g -O2 -pipe -fno-common  -c openssl_missing.c
In file included from openssl_missing.c:22:
openssl_missing.h:123: error: conflicting types for 'BN_rand_range'
/usr/include/openssl/bn.h:411: error: previous declaration of 'BN_rand_range' was here
openssl_missing.h:124: error: conflicting types for 'BN_pseudo_rand_range'
/usr/include/openssl/bn.h:412: error: previous declaration of 'BN_pseudo_rand_range' was here


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