Bug#954084: libnanomsg-raw-perl: Please verify server identity via SSL

Felix Lechner felix.lechner at lease-up.com
Mon Mar 16 15:00:04 GMT 2020


Package: libnanomsg-raw-perl
Severity: important

Dear maintainer,

Your package uses the Perl module HTTP::Tiny to access an insecure URL
(http://cpanidx.org/cpanidx/json/mod/$pkg). Your package could use the
secure version.

Please remember to set HTTP::Tiny's verify_SSL attribute to a true
value. By default, that module does not validate the identity of
server certificates. The documentation states that "Server identity
verification is controversial and potentially tricky..." [1]

Will you please use the secure URL for https://cpanidx.org and turn on
the verify_SSL attribute in HTTP::Tiny?

Kind regards
Felix Lechner

[1] https://metacpan.org/pod/HTTP::Tiny#SSL-SUPPORT



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