don't know if this warrants a patch.

it seems I need to relax reporting this length
error to be able to make it through the handshake.

might be just a bug in the implementation I'm
trying to handshake with (still, I have to work
around it to make it through the handshake...),
or there is something else happening -- if so,
I missed it - ignoring this check makes it work:
the length fields of the individual DistinguishedName
(cas) read in the while loop are correct in this case.

Axel.

Notes:
Mon Aug 22 07:09:12 EDT 2005 rsc
    I applied this change (in a different form),
    but I would like to know which branch of the ||
    is failing so that I can leave the other half in.
    
    Thanks.


Reference: /n/sources/patch/applied/tlshand-msgrecv-hcertreq-ignore-error
Date: Fri Aug 19 23:14:17 CES 2005
Reviewed-by: rsc

--- /sys/src/libsec/port/tlshand.c	Fri Aug 19 22:49:18 2005
+++ /sys/src/libsec/port/tlshand.c	Fri Aug 19 22:49:13 2005
@@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@
 		p += 3;
 		n -= 3;
 		if(nn == 0 || n != nn)
-			goto Short;
+			; 	/* ignore parse error (was: goto Short;) */
 		/* cas */
 		i = 0;
 		while(n > 0) {