Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] GnuTLS support in 1.12

[Micah Cowan]

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Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> GNU Wget 1.12 has broken GnuTLS support, which the patch at
> https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/pkgs/tools/networking/wget/gnutls-support.patch
> fixes.

Thanks for the patch; in the future, a one-line patch would do better as
an attachment, or even inlined, to save me the trouble of fetching it
from a website.

This patch may allow "GnuTLS-supporting" builds, but I doubt that it
truly supports GnuTLS: I'm not terribly familiar with that area of the
code, but I was originally informed that the GnuTLS support still lacks
a very important component: certificate-checking. That is, it may happy
allow you to connect to illegitimate sites.

GnuTLS is still not officially supported (arguably, we should've removed
the relevant configure-script options from releases, which appeared
first in 1.11 I think).

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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