GNU bug report logs - #24575
25.1; TLS cert lossage

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Devon Sean McCullough" <Emacs-Hacker2016 <at> jovi.net>

Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 21:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 25.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 24575 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Devon Sean McCullough" <Emacs-Hacker2016 <at> jovi.net>
Cc: 24575 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24575: 25.1; TLS cert lossage
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2016 10:58:44 +0300
> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 16:49:55 -0500
> From: "Devon Sean McCullough" <Emacs-Hacker2016 <at> jovi.net>
> 
> url-retrieve-synchronously distrusts this perfectly good cert
> which is trusted by Emacs 24.3, Emacs 24.5 and FireFox 49.0.1:
> 
> $ Open -a /Applications/Emacs.app -n --args -Q --eval '(progn (setq
> debug-on-error t) (trace-function (function nsm-query-user))
> (url-retrieve-synchronously "https://HostGator.com"))'
> 
> *trace-output*
> ======================================================================
> 1 -> (nsm-query-user "The TLS connection to %s:%s is insecure for the
> following reason%s:

It doesn't fail for me here, I get a buffer with the content of that
URL.

So it could be some issue with your TLS layer or the certificate
bundle.




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