Bug#603594: doesn't perform any ssl certificate checking (in the squeeze version)

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 11/16/2010 07:15 AM, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 13:10 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> We can argue about whether it's appropriate to go ahead and render the
>> page anyway, but it does not seem to be the case that the browser is
>> not performing *any* 
>> ssl certificate checking.
> 
> It _is_ performing an SSL certificate check - it does let you know the
> SSL certificate is "broken", right? It would say it is OK if the
> certificate was OK. Why do you say it isn't?

i suspect you're misinterpreting what i wrote (probably because i wrote
it confusingly -- sorry!).  I agree with you: epiphany *is* doing
certificate checking.

I was following up on a bug report that claims it is not doing checking,
and describing why i disagreed with that interpretation.

Regards,

	--dkg

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