Re: [PATCH 1/2] http.c: prompt for SSL client certificate password

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Mark Lodato <lodatom@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> The user is always prompted, even if the certificate is not encrypted.
>> This should be fine; unencrypted certificates are rare and a security
>> risk anyway.

Hmm, "rare" is in the eyes of beholder.  For automated settings, I would
imagine that it is a necessary feature that we need to keep working.  Of
course the local box that keeps an unencrypted certificate used this way
must be well protected to make it _not_ a security risk, but that is not
an issue you are addressing with your patch anyway, so it is not nice to
dismiss possible usability issues like this.

>> I did not create any tests because the existing http.sslcert option has
>> no tests to begin with.

Again, not nice.  Not having tests in this particular patch may be Ok, as
long as you or other people fix that deficiency with follow-up patches,
but please don't be proud that you are following a bad example.

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