cURL keyserver handlers broken

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Sun Feb 19 07:26:35 CET 2006


On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 04:42:19PM +1030, Alphax wrote:
> David Shaw wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 04:09:32PM +1030, Alphax wrote:
> > 
> >>Under GPG 1.4.3rc1 I'm completely unable to get the cURL-type keyserver
> >>handlers to function correctly. For example, using the following command:
> >>
> >>gpg --no-options --keyserver sks.keyserver.penguin.de --search Alphax
> >>
> >>I get the error:
> >>
> >>?: localhost: Unable to connect: ec=0
> >>gpgkeys: HTTP search error 7: couldn't connect: No error
> > 
> > 
> > Keep in mind 1.4.3rc1 is a development version and hasn't been
> > released yet.  gnupg-devel would be a more appropriate place.
> > 
> > That said, please run with:
> > 
> >   --debug 1024 --keyserver-options keep-temp-files
> > 
> > added to your command line, and post the results as well as the
> > contents of your tempin.txt file (the location of the tempin.txt file
> > may vary on different systems, but will be shown in the debug
> > output).  It looks like you're not talking to sks.keyserver.penguin.de
> > at all.
> >
> 
> Well, I know it exists; the second time I ran it (using an older version
> of GPG) I *did* get results.

No question that it exists.  Just that gpgkeys wasn't talking to it...

The output you sent is helpful.  Can you do another run, but add:
  --keyserver-options verbose verbose verbose

(that's 3x verbose)

David



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