On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:42:51PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Andreas Pflug (pgadmin@pse-consulting.de) wrote:
> > I wonder if there are apps that actually use the ssl pointer, beyond
> > detection of encrypted connections. So interpreting the result as bool
> > would be sufficient.
>
> I'm not sure if there are apps out there which use it for anything but a
> bool but there's certainly a potential for apps to want to do things
> like get the DN of the remote server...
Strangly enough, the SSL code in libpq has stored the peer DN and CN
except it doesn't appear to be available to the client...
Have a nice day,
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