GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 322848
xchat-gnome lacks ability to accept self-signed certificates
Last modified: 2005-12-30 01:11:56 UTC
Description of problem: There is no option in xchat-gnome to accept self-signed ssl certificates. This is needed when attempting to use SSL to connect to a private IRC network, etc. X-Chat proper has this as an option ("Accept invalid SSL certificate"). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xchat-gnome-0.6.5.fc4.i386.rpm How reproducible: Always From Fedora Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174591
Could you tell us a server who need this so we can easily test this issue? Thanks.
I believe it was being used by the original bug filer, for use with a private IRC network. You might try contacting the original filer to see if he knows of a network to test against. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174591
If xchat has the option, it should be reasonably easy to make a patch to do this and be confident that it works, even if we can't test it.
Created attachment 56453 [details] [review] add a option to allow invalid SSL certificate Not tested but i don't see why it would not work.
Set priority to high due to the patch (BTW, it should be a good idea to have HEAD in version field)
I implement this feature using the xchat-gtk way. Maybe it would be better to have a popup to ask if the user wants to connect on the server when it see that certificat is invalid. But this would be more difficult to implement and don't know if xchat engine is able to do this without modifications.
Created attachment 56454 [details] [review] forget to write the pretty Changelog's entry ;-)
Applied to svn. Thanks!