Re: SSL SNI

Jacob Champion <pchampion@vmware.com>

From: Jacob Champion <pchampion@vmware.com>
To: "peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com" <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-02-25T18:36:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, 2021-02-25 at 17:00 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Just as additional data points, it has come to my attention that both 
> the Go driver ("lib/pq") and the JDBC environment already send SNI 
> automatically.  (In the case of JDBC this is done by the Java system 
> libraries, not the JDBC driver implementation.)

For the Go case it's only for sslmode=verify-full, and only because the
Go standard library implementation does it for you automatically if you
request the builtin server hostname validation. (I checked both lib/pq
and its de facto replacement, jackc/pgx.) So it may not be something
that was done on purpose by the driver implementation.

--Jacob

Commits

  1. libpq: Fix SNI host handling

  2. libpq: Set Server Name Indication (SNI) for SSL connections