[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/3] avformat/tls_openssl: add host verification

[Marvin Scholz]

On 8 Jul 2025, at 20:21, Nicolas George wrote:

> Marvin Scholz (HE12025-07-08):
>> Can you clarify?

That's already possible with `-tls_verify 0`
(which is actually the default, arguably shouldn't be IMHO but
thats a different topic)

>
> wget(1):
>
>        --no-check-certificate
>            Don't check the server certificate against the available certificate
>            authorities.  Also don't require the URL  host  name  to  match  the
>            common name presented by the certificate.
>
> curl(1):
>        -k, --insecure
>               (TLS SFTP SCP) By default, every secure connection curl makes  is
>               verified  to  be secure before the transfer takes place. This op‐
>               tion makes curl skip the verification step  and  proceed  without
>               checking.
>
> w3m/README:
>    ssl_verify_server ON/OFF
>        Verify the SSL server (default: ON)
>
> And so on.
>
> Should probably be off by default for now, too.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
>   Nicolas George
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