Re: [Sks-devel] problems with SKS 1.0.10 when searching by key ID from GnuPG

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 03/22/2009 09:02 AM, Kim Minh Kaplan wrote:
> Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> 
>> gpg generates an HTTP request like this:
>>
>> http://$foo:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&options=mr&search=0xD21739E9&exact=on
> [...]
>> What is the right way to handle this?
> 
> The simplest solution would be to remove the "exact=on" parameter.

That may work, but:

 * it's gpg generating that query, not me by hand, so i can't easily
change it (and i certainly can't change it for everyone who i want to
support).

 * the exact same query (with exact=on) *works* against SKS 1.1.0, and
also against pgp.mit.edu, which reports itself as "pks_www/0.9.6"

This makes me think that what we're seeing is a bug in older versions of
SKS that could cause serious incompatibilities.  The reason i found it
was a report from a user who was having difficulty searching for keys
from the keyservers by keyid.

        --dkg

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