From: ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: [curl] Re: configure: --with-libidn or --with-libidn2?
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 17:10:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2amty3p.fsf@wasp.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161226170056.GB9351@jasmine>
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 01:59:22PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
>> It seems as if curl can be build with libidn2 now and they have
>> addressed the bug which existed for a while. I will check with
>> upstream and send in a fix for our curl package once I am sure
>> that the old bug has been fixed.
>
> Which bug?
>
> In November 2016, the curl maintainers asked packagers to not link curl
> with libidn or libidn2 at all, due to security issues:
>
> https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-11/0033.html
>
Which has since then be fixed and in a recent (not in 7.52.1
included) commit the --with-libidn2 option has been added.
My understanding of libidn2 is that there were problems with some
usecases. For example a domain name like bäcker.de would give
problems to applications such as curl. Of course this was months
ago, and I would not trust my memory on this.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-26 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-26 13:59 Fwd: [curl] Re: configure: --with-libidn or --with-libidn2? ng0
2016-12-26 14:19 ` ng0
2016-12-26 17:00 ` Leo Famulari
2016-12-26 17:10 ` ng0 [this message]
2016-12-26 17:35 ` Leo Famulari
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