Support for ALPN in Mosquitto

[santoshks68]

To connect to AWS IOT Broker on port 443, one needs to specify the ALPN protocol for AWS i.e. “x-amzn-mqtt-ca”. Since currently there is no direct way to do this using the Mosquitto API client library, one needs to instantiate a SSL_CTX object instead of relying on the one Mosquitto internally creates. With this SSL_CTX it is possible to set the ALPN protocol using the OpenSSL API, SSL_CTX_set_alpn_protos. Once this is done, the Mosquitto client instance is initialized with this SS_CTX object using opts_set(mosq_opt_t::MOSQ_OPT_SSL_CTX, ...). This works. The problem is during reconnect , this bit of jugglery is not accounted for and hence reconnect fails. It would be a good feature to enable setting the ALPN protocol at the Mosquitto API which would in turn make it simpler to handle the reconnect scenarios. The alternative would be to consider that a developer might need to provide his own SSL_CTX object (for whatever reasons) and since Mosquitto does allow you to do so, it should also consider this during reconnect!

[toast-uz]

Supporting ALPN is useful for not only the client but also the bridge of mosquitto.

[ralight]

Sounds like a sensible request.

[rOY369]

Any update on ALPN support for Mosquitto bridging and otherwise as well ?

[santoshks68]

Is there a time frame when this enhancement will be made available? Basically, is there any timeline for milestone 1.6?

[ralight]

This is fixed in 1.6, which will be released tomorrow.