Re: Replacing apt's http method (dropping curl)
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 03:42:14AM +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 2:00 AM, Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > as we discussed before in IRC, we plan to eventually replace
> > our existing curl-based https method with our http method,
> > by adding TLS support to it. This will move HTTPS support
> > into apt proper, removing the apt-transport-https package.
> >
> > I'm not sure how long this will take, I hope we get something
> > useful next month.
> >
>
> Great stuff!
>
> >
> > Implementation
> > ==============
> > I so far implemented basic https support using GnuTLS, including
> > SNI and certificate validation, and one (!) local CA file (as our
> > tests need that). The code is incredibly hacky right now. And
> > https->http redirects don't work yet.
> >
>
> I think this shouldn't work (at least by default). If https->http
> happens silently (not dying with an error or requiring a force
> option), that would make degradation happen while users think they are
> using HTTPS properly.
Sorry, I of course meant: Does not fail correctly. It just hangs. I'm
currently rewriting the stuff, the second version should be cleaner and
hopefully fix this issue.
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