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Re: Verifying server certificate failed?!
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: Verifying server certificate failed?! |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:00:54 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:05:40 +0100 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden>
wrote:
NM> On 03/15/2012 04:19 PM, Sven Geggus wrote:
>> So I definitely think gnutls should be more tolerant about
>> certificates which are not in use but provided anyway.
NM> I don't think this is a good idea. The protocol exactly specifies which
NM> certificates should be present. It does not allow any kind of additional
NM> information to be present so by providing it you violate the protocol.
NM> On the practical side, a simpler parser allows for simpler code and
NM> thus less bugs.
Could the error message be improved, if that doesn't complicate the code
too much?
Ted