This PR is an attempt to fix
https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/20293, in which node modules
connecting to databases fail due to TLS errors. I ran into this
attempting to use
[node-postgres](https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres) to connect to a
[Neon](https://neon.tech) database.
Investigating via `--inspect-brk` led me to notice that the hostname
eventually passed to `Deno.startTls` was null. The hostname is
determined by the following code:
f6b889b432/ext/node/polyfills/_tls_wrap.ts (L87-L89)
This logic doesn't appear to be correct. I couldn't find reference to
`servername` existing on the `secureContext` in either Node's or Deno's
docs. There's a lot of scope here, and it's my first time reading
through this code, so I could be missing something!
Node uses [the following
logic](2e458d9736/lib/_tls_wrap.js (L1679-L1682)
) to determine the hostname for certificate validation:
```
const hostname = options.servername ||
options.host ||
(options.socket && options.socket._host) ||
'localhost';
```
This PR updates the `TLSSocket` polyfill to use behave similarly (though
I omitted the default to `localhost` at the end; I'm not sure if
including it is necessary or correct). With this change, `node-postgres`
connects to my TLS endpoint successfully (aside: Neon requires SNI,
which also works as expected).
---
I tried to update the tests in
https://github.com/denoland/deno/blob/main/cli/tests/unit_node/tls_test.ts
to exercise this change, but the test fails for me on `main` on Linux. I
investigated briefly and noticed that the test fixture
`cli/tests/testdata/tls/localhost.crt` doesn't appear to include the
`subjectAltName` specified in `domains.txt`. I believe the certificate
isn't matching `localhost`, but that's where I ended investigating.