[php-maint] Bug#572122: Starting from php5-mysql-5.3 mysql connection over SSL stops working

[Laurento Frittella]

Package: php5-mysql
Version: 5.3.1-5
Severity: normal

Using php5.3 I can't connect to mysql using SSL

The following code snippet works under php5.2 at lenny but it fails at ssl_set() using php5.3 at squeeze (php5.2 at squeeze before upgrade worked too).

<?
$mysqli = mysqli_init();
if (!$mysqli) {
    die('mysqli_init failed');
}

if (!$mysqli->ssl_set(null, null, "cacert.pem", null, null)) {
    die('Setting SSL_SET failed');
}

if (!$mysqli->real_connect('mysql.domain.loc', 'user', 'pwd', 'db_name')) {
    die('Connect Error (' . mysqli_connect_errno() . ') '
            . mysqli_connect_error());
}

echo 'Success... ' . $mysqli->host_info . "\n";

$mysqli->close();
?>


As reported by php official documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.ssl-set.php

"Note that MySQL Native Driver does not support SSL, so calling this function when using MySQL Native Driver will result in an error"
Otherwise "This function always returns TRUE value"

I'm not sure if the latest 5.3 debian package enables mysqlnd support (it doesn't support compression and SSL officially at the moment, http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/php-mysqlnd/ ) causing this problem, but in this case please consider to release another package (php5-mysql-legacy?) build without mysqlnd (MySQL Native Driver) support.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-openvz-briullov.1-r4 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages php5-mysql depends on:
ii  libapache2-mod-php5 [phpapi-2 5.3.1-5    server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libmysqlclient16              5.1.41-3   MySQL database client library
ii  php5-cli [phpapi-20090626+lfs 5.3.1-5    command-line interpreter for the p
ii  php5-common                   5.3.1-5    Common files for packages built fr

php5-mysql recommends no packages.

php5-mysql suggests no packages.

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