{"id":530,"date":"2012-07-27T02:02:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T02:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/?p=530"},"modified":"2012-07-27T02:02:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T02:02:56","slug":"losing-a-half-day-of-my-life-and-im-running-out-of-half-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;losing a half day of my life&#8230; and I&#8217;m running out of half days."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This line did it:<\/p>\n<table id=\"post4298255\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td id=\"td_post_4298255\">\n<div id=\"post_message_4298255\">\n<pre dir=\"ltr\">$ENV{'PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME'} = 0;<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Net::Nessus::XMLRPC, which calls\u00a0LWP::UserAgent, didn&#8217;t emit any hints why something that had been working for many months suddenly doesn&#8217;t when I am forced to port to a new system&#8230; same OS, how could it go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>Turns out LWP changed the default behavior that had been around forever &#8211; now it dies if a cert isn&#8217;t kompletely kosher. \u00a0Since virtually every Nessus install will fail the cert verify, it now dies silently. \u00a0Just lovely.<\/p>\n<p>I hate security. \u00a0And people who think certs are the answer and cause me grief.<\/p>\n<p>(In case you&#8217;re wondering, put that line above in a perl script that tries to connect to nessus. \u00a0And hope something else doesn&#8217;t change from out from under you.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This line did it: $ENV{&#8216;PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME&#8217;} = 0; Net::Nessus::XMLRPC, which calls\u00a0LWP::UserAgent, didn&#8217;t emit any hints why something that had been working for many months suddenly doesn&#8217;t when I am forced to port to a new system&#8230; same OS, how could it go wrong? Turns out LWP changed the default behavior that had been around forever &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,46,19,4,87],"tags":[129,131,130,132],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dinosaur","category-perl","category-philosophy","category-security","category-web","tag-certs","tag-i-hate-security","tag-ssl","tag-time-is-running-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}