[Help-gnutls] RE: GNU TLS 2.2.4 installation

[Rajitha Reddy]

Thanks Simon. That helps a lot.

- Rajitha.

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Josefsson [mailto:simon at josefsson.org]
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 9:09 AM
To: Rajitha Reddy
Cc: help-gnutls at gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU TLS 2.2.4 installation

Rajitha Reddy <RReddy at mocana.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Here is how I am calling the gnutls client:
>
> gnutls-cli -d 10000 -p 6443 testserver
>
> where
>         testserver - name of the machine running the ssl server.
>         6443 - port on which the server is listening.
>
> Is this the right way of sending the servername extension to my ssl server?

Yes.

> With this, I am seeing that the gnu cli shows the following in its output:
>
> |<2>| EXT[9dc5888]: Sending extension SERVER_NAME

Seems like it works then.

> My doubt is:
>
> What is the difference between -srpusername and the field "testserver" in
>
> "gnutls-cli -d 10000 -p 6443 testserver"

Testserver is a hostname, -srpusername indicates the username used with
SRP authentication.  The SRP username doesn't have anything to do with
the hostname in the server name extension.

/Simon