I'm looking to put some validation code into our http client to be able to verify that the certificate served up by the server is not only trusted (VERIFY_PEER), but also that the hostname in the certificate matches the hostname I'm connected to.  From my research I believe there's nothing really in boost ASIO to do this, so what I need to do is get a reference to the underlying ssl socket object in the TCPConnection class (TCPConnection::m_ssl_socket).
 
I noticed that you have made this variable private and given no accessors.  Is there some other way that I can perform this validation through pion, and if not, would you be willing to crank out a quick minor release with an accessor to get that object?  From that object I can get the peer's x509 certificate and should be able to call raw openssl functions to perform this validation.
 
Thanks,
Tim