[Releasing] QtNetwork http smoke test PASS, https smoke test FAIL

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

On 3/16/12 5:24 PM, "ext shane.kearns at accenture.com"
<shane.kearns at accenture.com> wrote:

>This is due to a new windows 7 installation only trusting a handful of
>certificates, and checking unknown roots on demand the first time they
>are encountered.
>It isn't a new issue, has existed since we adopted using the system
>certificate store instead of our own cert bundle.
>See https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-24827 for details.
>
>We don't get the on demand checking because we're using our own http
>stack and openssl rather than windows http/ssl.
>
>There is some work for us to do here, but nobody complained about it in
>the wild yet.
>I don't think this should block the release, so I'm revising the https
>smoke test to PASS. (it works after loading the websites in MSIE or
>installing the windows XP cert bundle manually)

Yes, not a blocker IMO, but something that needs fixing :)

Cheers,
Lars

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