There are a lot of discussions, I'd like to rest the time out to be Jan 
1/13 (Next Tuesday), in case there's more in next LSARC meeting.

Thanks

--Irene
Alfred Peng wrote:
> On 01/07/09 01:21, Hugh McIntyre wrote:
>> Alfred Peng wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01/02/09 15:59, Hugh McIntyre wrote:
>>>> Shi-Ying Irene Huang wrote:
>>>> So does this mean that:
>>>>
>>>> - HTTPS is not supported right now?
>>>> - HTTPS is supported, but does no verification of the server 
>>>> certificate, thus defeating half of the point of HTTPS?
>>>> - HTTPS is supported and checks the certificates properly, just not 
>>>> via CURL/OpenSSL?
>>>> - or that WebKit does not do the network accesses itself?
>>> The current status for HTTPS support is between option 1 and 2. 
>>> Normally, WebKit doesn't support HTTPS. But if the environment 
>>> "WEBKIT_IGNORE_SSL_ERRORS" is set, WebKit will call libcURL function 
>>> to skip the certificate verification and deal with HTTPS request. 
>>> OpenSSL isn't involved in this right now. But to enable SSL 
>>> verification is on the plan.
>>
>> Sounds OK, since the out-of-the-box default won't load HTTPS in an
>> unsafe way.  Presumably any documentation on "WEBKIT_IGNORE_SSL_ERRORS"
>> will point out that this defeats the security of HTTPS?
>>
> There isn't document for this right now. Maybe man page is a good 
> place to add this?
>
> Thanks,
> -Alfred


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