From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unwarranted invocation of starttls
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:05:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5tn7mnx.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m31urgmux6.fsf@stories.gnus.org
On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:45:57 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
LMI> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Does TLS work on Windows with gnutls-cli.exe? I though it didn't,
>> because that mode of operation depended on signals that Windows
>> doesn't support.
LMI> Oh, yeah, that rings a bell.
LMI> If this is the case, the simple fix here is to have
LMI> `starttls-available-p' return nil on Windows.
LMI> Does anybody remember whether starttls.el is supposed to work under
LMI> Windows or not?
It can work, with a lot of fiddling, but is unreliable and causes many
issues that are hard to replicate, timeouts especially. I don't know of
anyone happily using it on W32 and think disabling it on W32 is a good
choice.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-04 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-01 17:11 Unwarranted invocation of starttls Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-01 18:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-01 18:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-01 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-03 18:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-01 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-03 18:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-03 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-03 19:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-04 11:05 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2012-01-04 19:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-04 20:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-04 21:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-05 5:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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