Re: Certificate, login & php question ?

On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 09:39:59PM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:32:26AM +0200, Jean-Gerard Pailloncy wrote:
> > 1) Is it possible to use the SSL authentification done by apache with
> > PostgreSQL ?
>
> I'm not aware of a way for Apache to proxy PostgreSQL's SSL
> negotiation with the PHP script back to the HTTP client.

If such a capability existed then it could arguably be considered
a flaw in SSL because it would allow a server to impersonate one
of its clients to another server or to hijack a client's secure
connection with another server.  Secure protocols are designed to
prevent such attacks.

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Michael Fuhr