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Re: CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST and Wildcard Certificates

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:57:18 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 12 Jan 2017, Paul D Rotter wrote:

> If I try to connect to https://test.domain.com should a certificate for
> *.domain.com pass this verification or no?

It should, yes.

The detailed rules are in RFC2818 section 3.1:

  https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2818#section-3.1

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