Bug ID 626594: No way to perform a soft server certificate verification ... There is no way to perform a soft server certificate verification. ... Impact ... No way to perform a soft server certificate verification and continue the handshake as though the verification is OK, even if it is not OK. ... Conditions ... Server-side SSL forward proxy when 'server certificate is set to 'require' and 'untrusted CA response control' and 'expired certificate response control' are both set to 'ignore'. ... When this sys db variable is 'enabled', calling SSL::verify_result will return a soft verfiy_result value. ... Typical use case: It is used in the server-side SSL forward proxy when 'server certificate is set to 'require' and 'untrusted CA response control' and 'expired certificate response control' are both set to 'ignore' but would like to perform a soft server certificate verification. ... When this sys db variable is 'enabled', calling SSL::verify_result will return a soft verfiy_result ...