purple_ssl_connect to prevent nslookup

[Duncan Berriman]

Not an issue with pidgin as you have reproduced it with wget.

 

Obviously things on the internet only connect via the ip address, the host
name is always translated to an ip.

 

Unusual that the connect using ip fails however it is possible the web
server has been configured to only accept connects which specify the
hostname (if you understand the http protocol it is passed in the request).

 

You might want to try an openssl s_client -connect hostname:443 and see what
that gives. 

 

http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/s_client.html

 

Duncan

 

From: devel-bounces at pidgin.im [mailto:devel-bounces at pidgin.im] On Behalf Of
karthik kumar
Sent: 15 August 2012 20:18
To: devel at pidgin.im
Subject: purple_ssl_connect to prevent nslookup

 

Hi, 

    purple_ssl_connect is resolving the hostname to public ip and then
tryting to connect. I have one strange url where I have to connect only
using the hostname but not ip. 

   

 To explain: 

   wget   'https://hostname/a/b/c/d?e=f'  =>  PASS Result.   

   nslookup  hostname   gives me   pub_ip

   wget  'https://pub_ip/a/b/c/d?e=f'       =>   FAIL Result.

 

The same with pidgin api's

    purple_ssl_connect( conn, hostname .....)  and purple_ssl_write(
/a/b/c/d?e=f  ...)     => FAIL Result.

 

Is there a way I can connect with the hostname itself ? I tried to search
but couldn't get anything useful. Can I get some help on this ?

 

 

Thanks

Karthik.


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