Re: Support for cert auth in JDBC

Hi guys,

Here are some improvements based on the comments I saw so far.
I'm also adding a small cheapo tester. Definitely not JUnit-ready :)

Marc-André Laverdière
Software Security Scientist
Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad, India

On Thursday 19 May 2011 11:16 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 05/18/2011 11:32 PM, Kris Jurka wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 18 May 2011, Craig Ringer wrote:
>>
>>> Alas the SSLSocketFactory interface doesn't offer any really nice
>>> options like a way to pass a Properties instance to the ctor,
>>
>> That'd be an easy thing to fix, just add another case to
>> org.postgresql.ssl.MakeSSL#convert to pass through the provided
>> Properties object. I've thought about that in the past, but with no real
>> use case, I wasn't in a big rush to do so.
>
> OK, good to know.
>
> It wasn't a big issue for me in the end, as I landed up fetching my
> configuration using the String argument form as a key to an
> application-specific configuration provider. It's much easier to pass a
> String argument through various layers one often has over the JDBC
> driver, like an ORM or the like.
>
> --
> Craig Ringer