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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>, Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: squelch warning from Net::SMTP::SSL
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 13:31:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqbo6hw8e9.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0nWvmuxfZJF_Mk2MmJNxz4+=46m_pBtzjSZprLxABhNeA@mail.gmail.com> (Ramkumar Ramachandra's message of "Fri, 5 Jul 2013 16:22:29 +0530")

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> John Keeping wrote:
>> I don't think this is really "fix", it's more plastering over the
>> problem.
>
> It defaulted to SSL_VERIFY_NONE before Net::SMTP::SSL was updated, and
> the behavior hasn't changed now.  The new version simply asks us to be
> explicit about SSL_VERIFY_NONE, so we are aware about it.

"We" as "the Git developers", yes. But your change makes sure users are
_not_ aware about it. There's a long history of software ignoring SSL
certificates by default, I don't think we should cast in stone that we
don't want SSL certificate verification.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-05 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-05 10:18 [PATCH] send-email: squelch warning from Net::SMTP::SSL Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-05 10:45 ` John Keeping
2013-07-05 10:52   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-05 11:31     ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2013-07-26  9:29       ` Colin Guthrie
2013-07-29 16:01         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-29 17:12           ` Colin Guthrie

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