GTlsClientConnection: loosen the semantics of "use-ssl3"

If SSL 3.0 has been disabled (at the host, application, or library
level), then the "use-ssl3" property becomes a "fail-immediately"
property.

Despite the name, the point of the property wasn't really specifically
to use SSL 3.0; it was to allow fallback when talking to broken
servers that do SSL/TLS negotiation incorrectly and break when they
see unexpectedly-high version numbers. So if we can't fall back to SSL
3.0, then the "use-ssl3" property should fall back to TLS 1.0 instead
(since there are hosts that will reject a TLS 1.2 handshake, but
accept a TLS 1.0 one).

glib-networking is being updated to implement that behavior, so update
the documentation here.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738633

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/gio/gtlsclientconnection.c b/gio/gtlsclientconnection.c
index 5d2a17d1b..e9e1e542c 100644
--- a/gio/gtlsclientconnection.c
+++ b/gio/gtlsclientconnection.c
@@ -103,18 +103,23 @@ g_tls_client_connection_default_init (GTlsClientConnectionInterface *iface)
   /**
    * GTlsClientConnection:use-ssl3:
    *
-   * If %TRUE, tells the connection to use SSL 3.0 rather than trying
-   * to negotiate the best version of TLS or SSL to use. This can be
-   * used when talking to servers that don't implement version
-   * negotiation correctly and therefore refuse to handshake at all with
-   * a "modern" TLS handshake.
+   * If %TRUE, tells the connection to use a fallback version of TLS
+   * or SSL, rather than trying to negotiate the best version of TLS
+   * to use. This can be used when talking to servers that don't
+   * implement version negotiation correctly and therefore refuse to
+   * handshake at all with a "modern" TLS handshake.
+   *
+   * Despite the property name, the fallback version is not
+   * necessarily SSL 3.0; if SSL 3.0 has been disabled, the
+   * #GTlsClientConnection will use the next highest available version
+   * (normally TLS 1.0) as the fallback version.
    *
    * Since: 2.28
    */
   g_object_interface_install_property (iface,
 				       g_param_spec_boolean ("use-ssl3",
-							     P_("Use SSL3"),
-							     P_("Use SSL 3.0 rather than trying to use TLS 1.x"),
+							     P_("Use fallback"),
+							     P_("Use fallback version of SSL/TLS rather than most recent version"),
 							     FALSE,
 							     G_PARAM_READWRITE |
 							     G_PARAM_CONSTRUCT |