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bug#18600: 24.3.94; EWW fails to check https certificates
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#18600: 24.3.94; EWW fails to check https certificates |
Date: |
Sat, 04 Oct 2014 22:00:27 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) |
> With these in mind, I have two recommendations:
> * I believe that eww https should check certificates by default in 24.4,
> even though other tls connections are tolerant by default.
> * At minimum, it should be possible to enable certificate checking for
> eww https connections while still allowing self-signed certificates
> for other uses of 'open-gnutls-stream' such as imaps and smtps. This
> is fairly common case.
I think it's too late to do that for Emacs-24.4. But we should apply
such a change to `emacs-24' after the 24.4 release, so that it will be
included in the next release regardless if the next release is 25.1 or
a 24.5 bugfix.
Stefan