Hi. On Wed, 3 Jun 2015 14:21:44 -0600 Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote:
> Reco wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 01:17:15PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > David Wright wrote: > > > > Reco wrote: > > > > > So, in the case of doubt - you use curl or rebuild wget against > > > > > openssl. It's that simple. > > > > > > I know that people have strong feelings for and against curl and wget. > > > I haven't ever understood it. You are the first to quantify why you > > > think Debian's curl deals better with https sites. It appears the > > > issues all surround https handling. > > > > Indeed. For example, I stumble upon #686837 on regular basis. > > > > And I'd like to add that wget that's linked against gnutls *would* be > > good thing *if* it allowed to poke all GnuTLS knobs - #642051. But it > > does not. > > You might be interested to see curl 7.42.1-2 entered unstable today. > It immediately started core dumping for me. But see also Bug#787638 > where the affect was widespread and reportedly in libcurl3-gnutls. I > know that wget and httping were segfaulting for me too. An upgrade > later in the day pulled in more upgrades and solved the problem for me. Seems to be resolved in unstable, according to the bug. Still, thanks for the heads up. > http://bugs.debian.org/342719 > > Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 13:13:15 +0200 > Distribution: unstable > > * Switch curl binary to libcurl3-gnutls (Closes: #342719) > This is the first step of a possible migration to a GnuTLS-only > libcurl for Debian. Let's see how it goes. > > If you have opinions you might want to make your comments known. I have two. First - it seems like an extreme attempt to fix #768522 (#342719 does not provide a meaningful explanation for the switch). By itself, it's a good thing. Second - from now upon unstable Debian has one tool less for testing those misconfigured https web-servers. At least we still have socat for this :( But then again - there's nothing that a package rebuild cannot fix :) Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150604001438.b5871157b8a4705b247e5...@gmail.com