GNU bug report logs - #17061
24.3.50; Gnus fails for self-signed certs when gnutls-verify-error is t

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Package: gnus;

Reported by: Jens Lechtenboerger <jens.lechtenboerger <at> fsfe.org>

Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 19:43:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 5.13001

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 17061 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jens Lechtenboerger <jens.lechtenboerger <at> fsfe.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 17061 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17061: 24.3.50;
 Gnus fails for self-signed certs when gnutls-verify-error is t
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 19:30:23 +0100

On 2017-01-25, at 00:50, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Jens Lechtenboerger <jens.lechtenboerger <at> fsfe.org> writes:
>
>> when gnutls-verify-error is t, Gnus fails to establish connections
>> to servers with self-signed certificates.  This is to be expected,
>> but I do not get any information about certificate problems at all.
>> Gnus just fails silently and reports the server as offline in the
>> *Server* buffer.
>
> Aren't there any messages from the gnutls layer saying what happened?
>
> I don't think there's any good mechanism to report these errors back up
> to the application layer...  or is there?

I don’t have 24.3.50 around any more.  More recent versions (24.5.1,
26.x) indeed show a reasonable certificate warning message and ask
whether to continue.

Best wishes
Jens
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