[ruby-core:35781] Patch to Net::HTTP to allow overriding SSL certificate hostname verification

I have a need to connect to an https server using Net::HTTP which
(incorrectly) returns a wildcard certificate that matches close enough
for me that I wish to allow it without completely disabling peer
verification, which is too insecure for my needs. I would really like
to see the server fix their problem, but as a client my hands are
tied.

The attached patch to Net::HTTP against the ruby_1_9_2 branch allows
me to override the hostname verification in the way that I need. See
https://gist.github.com/922585 for an example usage.

I removed @enable_post_connection_check in my patch because itppears
to be unused.

Is there a chance of getting this into the Ruby 1.9.x and perhaps Ruby
1.8.x?

Without this patch, the only way I have found to do this is a nasty
monkey-patch to OpenSSL::SSL.verify_certificate_identity, which
changes the behavior for the entire process, not just the connections
I am interested in.

The monkey patch can be found at https://gist.github.com/922579

ChangeLog entry:

Fri Apr 14 16:35:00 2011 atrick Higgins [e-mail]>

* lib/net/http.rb: Added Net::HTTP#ssl_hostname_verify attribute to
allow customized certificate hostname validation.