From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: 18600@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18600: 24.3.94; EWW fails to check https certificates
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 22:00:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzjdbth0j.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9zj5sg6.fsf@yeeloong.lan> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sat, 04 Oct 2014 19:24:41 -0400")
> With these in mind, I have two recommendations:
> * I believe that eww https should check certificates by default in 24.4,
> even though other tls connections are tolerant by default.
> * At minimum, it should be possible to enable certificate checking for
> eww https connections while still allowing self-signed certificates
> for other uses of 'open-gnutls-stream' such as imaps and smtps. This
> is fairly common case.
I think it's too late to do that for Emacs-24.4. But we should apply
such a change to `emacs-24' after the 24.4 release, so that it will be
included in the next release regardless if the next release is 25.1 or
a 24.5 bugfix.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-05 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-02 5:48 bug#18600: 24.3.94; EWW fails to check https certificates Mark H Weaver
2014-10-03 23:01 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-03 23:44 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-04 21:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-04 23:24 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-10-05 2:00 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-10-05 17:17 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-10-05 2:16 ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-23 17:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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