Can't run GPG --recv-keys under Windows Vista.

[Moses]

Patrick,

Thank you so much, it's works. :-)


On 5/28/07, Patrick Brunschwig <patrick at mozilla-enigmail.org> wrote:
> Moses wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've installed gpg on Windows Vista recently, but seems not all the
> > functions work well when I try to receive keys from keyserver. Here is
> > the command I typed:
> >
> >        gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys xxxxxxxx
> >
> > After hit RETURN, I got errors immediately like this:
> >
> >        gpgkeys: hkp fetch error 1: unsupported protocol
> >
> > The same command works well on Windows XP.
> >
> > I've checked the environment variables %PATH%, and gpg's directory is in it.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> This is a well-known issue on Vista. See e.g. here for the solution:
> http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2007-March/030595.html
>
> -Patrick
>