feat: add clearer errors for hostname, security policy failures#5761
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feat: add clearer errors for hostname, security policy failures#5761
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Goal
Make the errors for certificate and host name errors clearer.
Why
CERT_UNTRUSTEDis a very unhelpful error, because it has no information about why the cert was untrusted. This makes debugging issue very irritating.This PR makes two changes
How
We add a new error for the host name verification issue. We adopt the existing
S2N_ERR_SECURITY_POLICY_INCOMPATIBLE_CERTissue for the mTLS failure case.Callouts
I don't love that
S2N_ERR_SECURITY_POLICY_INCOMPATIBLE_CERTis aUsageError. However, it's also not totally correct to call it a ProtocolError.Honestly, I think that
UsageErroris more accurate thanProtocolError, and I think the benefit of the much clearer error outweighs any downsides to the slightly odd Error Type.Testing
I am relying on the integration tests I added in #5755
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