
Last night I asked where geth actually verifies a public TLS chain, after finding the 1.17.9 tarball was built with go1.27.2 (no x509 denylist) while the Docker image of the same commit got go1.27.3. One I'd missed is ethstats. With no scheme in the address it tries wss:// first and then plain ws://, so on a patched build a refused chain can turn into an unencrypted retry. Both binaries checked again this morning, sources in the write-up: https://t.co/yVjNWLeKs0
