Re: [gotmail] Problems with curl (7.10.8+7.11.0-pre1-1) now in DebianSID

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:44:10 -0700 paul cannon <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:31:57AM -0800, John Fruetel wrote:
> > Is there anyway that gotmail could detect if your bundle is bad?
>
> Probably not reliably, as I believe the curl authors intend the CA
> bundle to be an internal resource, subject to change without notice.
> It would probably be easiest to simply try running curl and detecting
> the error; I would expect curl gives a particular exit code when it
> has bundle problems.

Hmmm... perhaps I'm missing something, but couldn't gotmail detect that 
exit code from curl as a way of detecting whether the CA bundle is bad?

Then gotmail could return a more useful error message, such as "Your 
version of curl is out of date. Try getting the latest version from 
<wherever> and installing it with <command>".

That way, when people write to the gotmail list asking "Hi, when I run 
gotmail it tells me my version of curl is out of date and I should 
install the new version, what should I do?" you can wack them with a 
LART.




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Steven D'Aprano