SSL Connection / Windows + Cygwin + PostgreSQL 7.4 Beta 1 question

Started by Carlos Guzman Alvarezover 22 years ago6 messages
#1Carlos Guzman Alvarez
carlosga@telefonica.net

Hello:

I'm trying to establish a TLS connection to PostgreSQL 7.4 beta 1 on
windows and Cygwin using C#, i have configured PostgreSQL as it's
explained here:

http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/ssl-tcp.html

There are anything more that is needed to be done in order to run
SSL/TLS connections to a PostgreSQL server??

Seems that i can start to establish the connection and receive the
ServerHello message but i get always an io exception ( from C# sockets )
when i sent the Client Finished TLS message ( if i try to connect to a
inet ssl server like ssl.netcraft.com:443 i can complete the Handshake
protocol ) any idea of what can i ave bad configure or i'm doing bad ??

Now two questions about SSL Request message:

1. I'm getting as response an 'S' instead of an 'Y' is this ok ??

2. In which format are sent the error messages for an SSL Request ?? (I
ask this because i think they are sent in 2.0 format i'm rigth??)

Thanks in advance.

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Best regards

Carlos Guzm�n �lvarez
Vigo-Spain

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Carlos Guzman Alvarez (#1)
Re: SSL Connection / Windows + Cygwin + PostgreSQL 7.4 Beta 1 question

Carlos Guzman Alvarez <carlosga@telefonica.net> writes:

Now two questions about SSL Request message:

1. I'm getting as response an 'S' instead of an 'Y' is this ok ??

Doesn't sound right. A recent (7.1 or later) postmaster will always
return 'Y' or 'N'. Older postmasters will not recognize the SSLRequest
code and will return an 'E' message bleating about bad protocol number.

2. In which format are sent the error messages for an SSL Request ?? (I
ask this because i think they are sent in 2.0 format i'm rigth??)

Always 2.0, because only a pre-7.1 postmaster will return an error.
It's not clear to me that you really need to bother to parse the
message, though. The only thing you can do is close the connection
and try again non-SSL (or fail if you don't want non-SSL).

regards, tom lane

#3Carlos Guzman Alvarez
carlosga@telefonica.net
In reply to: Tom Lane (#2)
Re: SSL Connection / Windows + Cygwin + PostgreSQL 7.4

Hello:

Doesn't sound right. A recent (7.1 or later) postmaster will always
return 'Y' or 'N'. Older postmasters will not recognize the SSLRequest
code and will return an 'E' message bleating about bad protocol number.

Huummmm ... ok, i'm going to reinstall it from latest snapshot :)

Always 2.0, because only a pre-7.1 postmaster will return an error.
It's not clear to me that you really need to bother to parse the
message, though. The only thing you can do is close the connection
and try again non-SSL (or fail if you don't want non-SSL).

Ok, thanks, really i don't need to parse it but it's no bad to know that
the message is sent with 2.0 format :)

--
Best regards

Carlos Guzm�n �lvarez
Vigo-Spain

#4Barry Lind
blind@xythos.com
In reply to: Tom Lane (#2)
Re: SSL Connection / Windows + Cygwin + PostgreSQL 7.4

Tom,

I also see S and N, and do for the database versions I have tested
against (7.2, 7.3 and 7.4). I always thought this was just a doc bug
with the FE/BE protocol docs.

--Barry

Tom Lane wrote:

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Carlos Guzman Alvarez <carlosga@telefonica.net> writes:

Now two questions about SSL Request message:

1. I'm getting as response an 'S' instead of an 'Y' is this ok ??

Doesn't sound right. A recent (7.1 or later) postmaster will always
return 'Y' or 'N'. Older postmasters will not recognize the SSLRequest
code and will return an 'E' message bleating about bad protocol number.

2. In which format are sent the error messages for an SSL Request ?? (I
ask this because i think they are sent in 2.0 format i'm rigth??)

Always 2.0, because only a pre-7.1 postmaster will return an error.
It's not clear to me that you really need to bother to parse the
message, though. The only thing you can do is close the connection
and try again non-SSL (or fail if you don't want non-SSL).

regards, tom lane

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#5Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Barry Lind (#4)
Re: SSL Connection / Windows + Cygwin + PostgreSQL 7.4 Beta 1 question

Barry Lind <blind@xythos.com> writes:

I also see S and N, and do for the database versions I have tested
against (7.2, 7.3 and 7.4). I always thought this was just a doc bug
with the FE/BE protocol docs.

[checks code] ... You are right. I will fix the docs.

regards, tom lane

#6Carlos Guzman Alvarez
carlosga@telefonica.net
In reply to: Tom Lane (#2)
Re: SSL Connection / Windows + Cygwin + PostgreSQL 7.4

Hello:

A last question i'm reviewing why i can finish the TLS Handshake
protocol, i have these two entries in the postgres log:

LOG: could not load root cert file "/usr/local/pgsql/data/root.crt": No
such file or directory

LOG: could not initialize SSL connection: tls rsa encrypted value
length is wrong

I think this can be only a problem with test certificate (that i have
created as is explained at
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/ssl-tcp.html )?? there are
any other way for create it ??

--
Best regards

Carlos Guzm�n �lvarez
Vigo-Spain