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bug#27658: 26.0.50; response parsing hangs when using tls.el and gnutls-
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Richard Copley |
Subject: |
bug#27658: 26.0.50; response parsing hangs when using tls.el and gnutls-cli.exe on Windows |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 03:42:56 +0100 |
On 12 July 2017 at 13:09, <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>
>>> In https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=23759#8 Eli said:
>>>
>>> TLS connections on MS-Windows are supported via the GnuTLS library.
>>> External TLS programs will never work correctly on Windows, since
>>> they use signals to communicate with Emacs. So there's little sense
>>> in fixing this issue, because the result will not work anyway.
>>>
>>
>> I see, thank you.
>> That's a lot of hours I'll never get back. No big deal! But a little comment
>> near the top of "tls.el", or somewhere, to let people know not to bother,
>> would be nice.
>
> Hmm, and I see that #15905 was closed as wontfix too, so it's basically
> unsupported at this point even on GNU/Linux platforms. We should mark
> it as obsolete at least, if not remove it entirely.
That's a shame, because the library-based implementation has some flaws
too. I've been trying to debug where that goes wrong, when it accepts certs
for the wrong host and self-signed certs. (Test case in Glyph's blog post.)
I didn't learn much. Never mind :)