[Gajim-devel] Cert encoding error in nbxmpp [PATCH]

[forenjunkie]

Hm,

Why dont you open a Bug report with the distribution?

There are many encodings, why should we implement trial and error until 
we find the encoding?

Regards

lovetox


Am 08.06.2018 um 07:06 schrieb Robert Marx:
> A small addendum: this is a variant of #51, with some ISO8859-1
> characters outside the allowed UTF8 range.
>
> Am 07.06.2018 um 21:22 schrieb Robert Marx:
>> Dear Gajim developers,
>>
>> python-nbxmpp (master) seems to fail loading certificates that contain
>> characters which are not allowed in utf-8 files. Some Linux
>> distributions ship certificates that are encoded using ISO8859-1. This
>> prevents gajim from establishing TLS connections, thus effectively
>> rendering it nonfunctional. Ive read (ok skimmed) the relevant RFCs
>> concerning the PEM and crt file formats and could not find any
>> indication that these files (PEM, crt) are required to be UTF8 encoded.
>>
>> I've attached a patch against the master branch that fixes this problem
>> with certificates using the ISO8859-1 encoding. The patch might be
>> extended by including other encoding options. The ANSI encoding might be
>> superfluous (probably a strict subset of UTF8) but I included it
>> nonetheless to be safe.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Robert
>>
>> PS: Sorry for not going through gitlab, but I happen to be hesitant to
>> subscribe for a single patch.
>>
>>
>>
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