[Lynx-dev] Re: SSL certificate validation support *broken* in 2.8.7dev.7

[Thorsten Glaser]

Dixi:

>• the check is bogus
>
>- X509_verify_cert_error_string(X509_STORE_CTX_get_error(X509_STORE_CTX *0))
>fails.
>+ X509_verify_cert_error_string(X509_STORE_CTX_get_error(NULL))
>succeeds.

It gets worse:

/tmp//ccq32398.o: In function `main':
conftest.c:(.text+0x6): undefined reference to `X509_STORE_CTX_get_error'
conftest.c:(.text+0xe): undefined reference to `X509_verify_cert_error_string'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

So you need to link in -lcrypto to do that.

bye,
//mirabilos
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