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Documentation for wildcard certificates patch

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Magnus Hagander 2008-12-02 12:42:11 +00:00
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml,v 1.271 2008/11/25 19:30:42 tgl Exp $ -->
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml,v 1.272 2008/12/02 12:42:11 mha Exp $ -->
<chapter id="libpq">
<title><application>libpq</application> - C Library</title>
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only if the certificate also has just the IP address in the
<literal>cn</> field.
</para>
<para>
If the <literal>cn</> attribute in the certificate sent by the
server starts with an asterisk (<literal>*</>), it will be treated
as a wildcard. This wildcard can only be present at the start of
the value, and will match all characters <emphasis>except</> a
dot (<literal>.</>). This means the certificate will not match
subdomains.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>