X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/heiko/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/f3d8f75105d83b511cf0cf43d3f8b23323d1106b..e51c7be22dfccad376659a1a46cee93c9979bbf7:/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt index 018bfddb9..588543454 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt +++ b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt @@ -1025,6 +1025,8 @@ Proxy Protocol Support Exim now has Experimental "Proxy Protocol" support. It was built on specifications from: http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/doc/proxy-protocol.txt +Above URL revised May 2014 to change version 2 spec: +http://git.1wt.eu/web?p=haproxy.git;a=commitdiff;h=afb768340c9d7e50d8e The purpose of this function is so that an application load balancer, such as HAProxy, can sit in front of several Exim servers and Exim @@ -1145,6 +1147,25 @@ QUIT +Certificate name checking +-------------------------------------------------------------- +The X509 certificates used for TLS are supposed be verified +that they are owned by the expected host. The coding of TLS +support to date has not made these checks. + +If built with EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES defined, code is +included to do so, and a new smtp transport option +"tls_verify_cert_hostname" supported which takes a list of +names for which the checks must be made. The host must +also be in "tls_verify_hosts". + +Both Subject and Subject-Alternate-Name certificate fields +are supported, as are wildcard certificates (limited to +a single wildcard being the initial component of a 3-or-more +component FQDN). + + + -------------------------------------------------------------- End of file --------------------------------------------------------------