Thus said "j. van den hoff" on Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:39:50 +0200:
> "Accept certificate for host {ourserver} (a=always/y/N)"
>
> which he answered with "y" which leads to
>
> "server did not reply"
I just tested this with my SSL environment (tcpserver+stunnel+fossil)
and it worked fine. I have a self-signed certificate and Fossil does not
recognize it. I answered y to the question and it proceeded to
synchronize (only once), and then prompted me again to accept the
certificate. It will do this once per round-trip until the entire Fossil
is downloaded.
> question: my understanding is these warnings and the prompting for how
> to proceed is done by fossil, right? if so, am I do understand that
> this is a fossil problem? should I expect the "server did not reply"
> message after answering "y" or is this a bug (of SSL, of fossil, or
> whatever)? I'm quite at a loss here.
I think it's hard to say at this point what really happened. I can
reproduce the error message by killing the remote fossil that is running
while the fossil client is waiting for me to answer the question.
Perhaps your colleague in the US waited too long to respond to the
question and the server serving the Fossil repository aggressively
disconnected the connection? Perhaps there was a firewall issue. At any
rate, this doesn't happen under normal conditions, however, I wouldn't
expect it to lead directly to a bug in fossil at this point.
If the fossil is a large repository, and the max-download is at the
default, the user could potentially have to answer that question
multiple times when selecting y as the answer. Perhaps he answered y and
walked away assuming that it only needed answered once (while away the
server disconnected the idle connection); then when he returned he found
that the question was being asked again so he hit y and immediately got
the ``server did not reply'' message.
Andy
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