GNU bug report logs -
#26835
26.0.50; url-retrieve no longer raises certificate errors
Previous Next
Reported by: Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen <at> gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 18:44:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: security
Found in version 26.0.50
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
Full log
View this message in rfc822 format
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen <at> gmail.com>, 26835 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 16:24:13 +0200
>
> >> (setq gnutls-verify-error t)
> >> (url-retrieve-synchronously "https://wrong.host.badssl.com/")
> >>
> >> In Emacs 25.2, this causes an error to be thrown when you use
> >> url-retrieve, in 26, it silently proceeds.
> >
> > That's because we now perform GnuTLS negotiation asynchronously,
> > without blocking.
>
> (As an aside, perhaps url-retrieve-synchronously should be opening the
> socket with :nowait nil?)
Yes, I had a similar thought while I was reading the code.
> Good analysis. I'll try to have a look at this soonish (and make it
> report the error properly) unless somebody else beats me to it.
Thanks.
This bug report was last modified 7 years and 257 days ago.
Previous Next
GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham,
1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd,
1994-97 Ian Jackson.