Re: _gnutls_hostname_compare: toupper vs. c_toupper

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On 05/03/2011 10:53 PM, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
> In GnuTLS 2.8.6 and 2.10.5, _gnutls_hostname_compare uses toupper
> on the characters of the hostname:
> 
>   /* find the first different character */
>   for (; *certname && *hostname && toupper (*certname) == toupper (*hostname);
>        certname++, hostname++, certnamesize--)
>     ;
> I suspect this should be c_toupper instead, so that 'i' matches
> 'I' in hostnames even in a Turkish (or is that Turkic?) locale.

You're right. This however makes it apparent that
gnutls_x509_crt_check_hostname() does not really support
internationalized DNS names...

Thank you for reporting that.

regards,
Nikos