268975 - nsIBadCertListener has no public way to get hostname being talked to

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Security: PSM, enhancement)

Description

[William Bardwell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040308
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The various methods in nsIBadCertListener interface are given an
nsIInterfaceRequester and the certificate, but no public interface
that lets them get at the hostname being connected to.  That makes
it harder to write ones own nsIBadCertListener.  The nsIInterfaceRequestor
is infact a nsNSSSocketInfo which has the hostname, but that is a private
interface.  There should be a way to get at a public interface that
will say what the hostname being connected to is.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[William Bardwell]

This is still a problem, still exactly as described.  Nobody else seems to be
using the mozilla stuff to do HTTP outside of just a browser.

Comment 3

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

Mass change owner of unconfirmed "Core:Security UI/PSM/SMime" bugs to nobody.
Search for kaie-20100607-unconfirmed-nobody

Comment 4

[:Cykesiopka]

Bug 327181 introduced nsIBadCertListener2.notifyCertProblem() that AFAICT provides hostname information.

See https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/92f57efec305/security/manager/ssl/nsIBadCertListener2.idl#l29 for the current location.