SqueakSSL Plugin for Mac OS X

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> On 04 Jan 2011, at 18:16, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Has anyone got the Squeak SSL plugin [1] to work on Mac OS X, more specifically for the Cog VM family, Pharo 1.1.1 or later and Mac OS X 10.6.5 ? If not, is there some how to guide on building plugins ?
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>> TIA,
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>> Sven
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>> [1] http://www.squeaksource.com/SqueakSSL
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> I have found the Google project website for the plugin:
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>        http://code.google.com/p/squeakssl/
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> where binary versions of the plugin can be downloaded for Windows, Mac and Linux.
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> I got this to work in a Cog VM on Mac OS X, however not without at least one problem:
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> SqueakSSL>>#certState always returns -1 on Mac OS X simply because this is hardcoded in sqMacSSL.c:
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> 248:    /* We are connected. Verify the cert. */
> 249:    ssl->state = SQSSL_CONNECTED;
> 250:    ssl->certFlags = -1;
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> While on Linux, in in sqUnixOpenSSL.c:
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> 292:      /* Check the result of verification */
> 293:      result = SSL_get_verify_result(ssl->ssl);
> 294:      if(ssl->loglevel) printf("sqAcceptSSL: SSL_get_verify_result = %d\n", result);
> 295:      /* FIXME: Figure out the actual failure reason */
> 296:      ssl->certFlags = result ? SQSSL_OTHER_ISSUE : SQSSL_OK;
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> Still not a full implementation, but better (and others report SqueakSSL is working on Linux).
> The OpenSSL calls used on Linux seem to exist identically on Mac OS X.
> (BTW, there are two instances of this code in the C file.)
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> Changing the example code in SqueakSSL class>>google: to skip the certState check:
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>        "Verify that the cert is valid"
>        ssl certState = 0 ifFalse:[
>                self error: 'The certificate is invalid (code: ', ssl certState,')'.
>        ].
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> Results in a working example.
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> If I only knew how to recompile the plugin I could try to build a better one, I have however never done this (nor built a VM).
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> Is there anybody else interested in helping out ?
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> Sven
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