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bug#23759: 25.1.50; open-tls-stream creates malformed gnutls-cli command
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#23759: 25.1.50; open-tls-stream creates malformed gnutls-cli command if trusted cert files don't exist |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Jun 2016 17:03:02 +0300 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: flitterio@gmail.com (Francis Litterio), 23759@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 12:18:15 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > TLS connections on MS-Windows are supported via the GnuTLS library.
> > External TLS programs will never work correctly on Windows, since they
> > use signals to communicate with Emacs. So there's little sense in
> > fixing this issue, because the result will not work anyway.
>
> Perhaps it would make sense to just have `open-tls-stream' signal an
> error on Windows to avoid confusing people? I think this is at least
> the fourth bug report where people have spent significant time trying to
> debug something that will never work.
>
> It could just say (error "Use an Emacs built with TLS support (and with
> installed gnutls libraries)").
At least a warning sounds like a good idea. Not so sure about
erroring out, though.