21 Oct
2014
21 Oct
'14
9:57 p.m.
So, with all the hubbub around POODLE and ssl, we're preparing a new load balancer using HAProxy.
So we have a set of unit tests written using PHPUnit, having trouble validating certificates. How do you test/validate an SSL cert for a prototype "foo.com" server if it's not actually active at the IP address that matches DNS for foo.com?
For non-ssl sites, I can specify the url like http://1.2.3.4/path and pass an explicit "host: foo.com" http header but that fails for SSL certificate validation.
You can also set a hosts file entry, but that's also rather painful. Is there a better option?