Subject: Re: bug#38371: 27.0.50; network-stream-certificate fails to specify :port as a string for auth-source-search

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 11:54:20 +0100

>>>>> On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 11:43:40 +0100, Michael Albinus <[email-masked]> said:

    Michael> Integer values for :port are not foreseen, see the docstring of
    Michael> `auth-source-search':

    Michael> A string value is always matched literally.  A symbol is matched
    Michael> as its string value, literally.  All the SPEC values can be
    Michael> single values (symbol or string) or lists thereof (in which case
    Michael> any of the search terms matches).

Right, which is why Alex's patch was the right thing to do.

Robert