Fix -verify_return_error in s_client
The "verify_return_error" option in s_client is documented as: Return verification errors instead of continuing. This will typically abort the handshake with a fatal error. In practice this option was ignored unless also accompanied with the "-verify" option. It's unclear what the original intention was. One fix could have been to change the documentation to match the actual behaviour. However it seems unecessarily complex and unexpected that you should need to have both options. Instead the fix implemented here is make the option match the documentation so that "-verify" is not also required. Note that s_server has a similar option where "-verify" (or "-Verify") is still required. This makes more sense because those options additionally request a certificate from the client. Without a certificate there is no possibility of a verification failing, and so "-verify_return_error" doing nothing seems ok. Fixes #8079 Reviewed-by: Nicola Tuveri <nic.tuv@gmail.com> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8080) (cherry picked from commit 78021171dbcb05ddab1b5daffbfc62504ea709a4)
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