GNU bug report logs - #29978
wishlist: gnutls-verify-error needs a 'ask mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 15:22:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29978: closed (wishlist: gnutls-verify-error needs a 'ask mode)
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:47:02 +0000
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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: wishlist: gnutls-verify-error needs a 'ask mode
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:21:21 +0100
Verification using gnutls-verify-error is currently an either-or
proposition: if the verification fails, there's no fallback. Typical
browser implementations allow querying the user for the desired
action, emacs should allow something similar.

Bonus: allow updating gnutls-verify-error automatically based on the
user's response


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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: 29978-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29978: wishlist: gnutls-verify-error needs a 'ask mode
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:46:36 +0100
Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de> writes:
>
>> On Jan 04 2018, Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Verification using gnutls-verify-error is currently an either-or
>>> proposition: if the verification fails, there's no fallback. Typical
>>> browser implementations allow querying the user for the desired
>>> action, emacs should allow something similar.
>>
>> Isn't that what NSM is about?
>
> NSM doesn't currently come into play until gnutls.c has finished
> setting up the TLS connection. Since gnutls.c is the one doing the
> verification, by then it's too late.

Umm, nevermind. I hadn't realized nsm already implemented these
checks. Closing.


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