git-core: gnutls_handshake() fail when using https:// over a proxy

Jonathan Nieder jrnieder at gmail.com
Sun May 1 09:22:16 UTC 2011


Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Louis Opter wrote:

>>>> When Louis tries to access some files through https using a proxy
>>>> (squid/2.6.STABLE16), curl returns the error
>>>>
>>>> gnutls_handshake() failed: A TLS warning alert has been received.
>>>>
>>>> It works fine when using a direct (no proxy) connection.  Any ideas?
>
> We had this bug in (lib)curl 7.21.5, was it that version you used by
> any chance?

IIRC Louis was using Debian's libcurl3-gnutls 7.18.2-8lenny3.
Rebuilding git against a version of libcurl of similar vintage that
uses OpenSSL made the problem go away.



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