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0 pointsjvehent11y ago0 comments

It's a tricky thing to do because of all the possible versions of all the possible web servers. The dropdown would end up being rather long, and require maintaining a list in the code. And then there's distribution specific backports, etc...

So we tabled this problem for now and went with a free field, but please do open a github issue and we'll add look for ways to do it.

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darklajid11y ago· 1 in thread

Well, for the GP the 'feature' might be to allow a 'latest' version string already?

Keeping track of each released version is probably a huge pain in the .. back. But 'latest' (which isn't selected for openssl for me, for example: It shows 0.9.8.h atm) might already help to get the most fitting configuration for the current set of software?

I assume you don't care about individual releases _unless_ they change the configuration syntax/offer different cipher options?

jvehentOP11y ago

That's a valid point. I'd suggest capturing it in the issue https://github.com/mozilla/server-side-tls/issues/39

There's a number of edge cases but we can probably find a middle ground that works well enough for the general case.

JohnTHaller11y ago

I'd suggest the dropdown re-populate based on the server selected and be based on the cutoffs you use for the different configurations it generates. So, if you select Apache, it'd give you something like 1.x, 2.1.0 - 2.2.x, 2.3.x, etc based on which versions share configurations.

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