Subject: Re: bug#15905: 24.3; url-copy-file sometimes silently downloads garbage or incomplete file

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:59:38 +0100

John Wiegley <[email-masked]> writes:

> Lars, what is the argument for rejecting external TLS programs, for and
> against?

I don't know what the pro argument is.

The argument against is that using external programs doesn't go through
the Emacs network security manager, and TLS validation either has to be
switched off ("--insecure") or switched on for all connections.  Which
is, of course, unacceptable.

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