Bug#559917: libsoup finds ssl confusing

Clint Adams schizo at debian.org
Tue Apr 27 18:44:03 UTC 2010


This is from Dan Winship in reply to my inquiry about adding hooks
for cert validation:

> You can't. You can either accept all certificates or automatically
> reject all bad ones. As of 2.30, there's an API for being able to accept
> bad ones but provide a UI hint (SOUP_SESSION_SSL_STRICT /
> SOUP_MESSAGE_CERTIFICATE_TRUSTED), but there's not yet a way to pop up
> confusing dialogs that the user doesn't understand. This will eventually
> be added, when TLS support for GSocket is finished and libsoup is ported
> to that; hopefully for 2.32/3.0

So that's better than nothing, but not usable for something like
monkeysphere.





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