Tumbleweed Rants Stefano's World http://tumbleweed.org.za/node/85/atom/feed 2008-01-02T19:55:13+00:00 s_client's R "feature" http://tumbleweed.org.za/2007/07/17/s_clients-r-feature 2007-07-17T12:28:50+00:00 2008-01-02T19:55:13+00:00 tumbleweed I’ve just spent a few hours brain-haemorrhaging over why my new Postfix server wasn’t allowing me to enter “RCPT TO:” over a STARTTLS connection. Instead it would renegotiate the TLS.

Eventually I found an e-mail by Wietse Venema saying:




Victor Duchovni:

> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 04:31:12PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: 

> > RCPT TO:<postmaster>

> > RENEGOTIATING

>

> You got bit by the "s_client" "R" feature... try "rcpt to:" lower case,

> then it hangs up.



What utter brain damage, a non-transparent SSL client program.

Read this and be warned — we are all stupid, in the eyes of the truly mad s_client

]]> I’ve just spent a few hours brain-haemorrhaging over why my new Postfix server wasn’t allowing me to enter “RCPT TO:” over a STARTTLS connection. Instead it would renegotiate the TLS.

Eventually I found an e-mail by Wietse Venema saying:

Victor Duchovni:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 04:31:12PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: 
> > RCPT TO:<postmaster>
> > RENEGOTIATING
>
> You got bit by the "s_client" "R" feature... try "rcpt to:" lower case,
> then it hangs up.

What utter brain damage, a non-transparent SSL client program.

Read this and be warned — we are all stupid, in the eyes of the truly mad s_client

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