Bug#467022: [Pkg-gnutls-maint] Bug#467022: gnutls-bin: gnutls-cli-debug does not know starttls

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 02:39:30PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs at zugschlus.de> writes:
> > please add the --starttls option to gnutls-cli-debug as well.
> 
> Hi.  How would that work?  The gnutls-cli --starttls parameter requires
> an interactive user that sends EOF or SIGALRM when TLS negotiation
> should start, but gnutls-cli-debug is a non-interactive tool that
> creates several TCP/TLS sessions.
> 
> > Why is this a dedicated binary in the first place? (Reference:
> > #348046).
> 
> I don't think gnutls-cli-debug would be useful there: instead the
> gnutls-cli -d 4711 debug log is useful.

That's way too verbose. I'd like to be able to obtain the concise list
of a remote server's capability even when this server's TLS is hidden
behind a starttls frontend.

As maintainer of Debian's default MTA I frequently need to debug
SMTP/STARTTLS.

Greetings
Marc

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