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Draft: Kleopatra: add test to check connectivity
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We had a support case were it turned out the cause of an S/MIME certificates "invalid" status was a missing proxy setting.
To make it easier to debug this kind of issue in the future, we would like to add a test in Kleopatra to check the connectivity.

There are several options for this:

  1. An action "Check connectivity" in the Tools menu. This could check connectivity by trying to reach versions.gnupg.org
  2. Add the test to the self-tests, but only as optional test, which would have to be checked at the bottom of the window to include it.
  3. Add a command for it in the drop down of the command line tool "GnuPG Configuration Overview" in Kleopatra (which we should rename btw)

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• ebo created this task.Thu, Apr 17, 3:21 PM
• werner triaged this task as Normal priority.Thu, Apr 17, 4:47 PM
• ikloecker added a subscriber: • ikloecker.Thu, Apr 17, 5:33 PM

In any case, the actual connectivity test needs to be performed by GnuPG. Otherwise we might just test whether the Qt/KDE libraries can reach versions.gnupg.org, but not whether dirmngr can. Werner proposed something like gpg --fetch-key https://gnupg.org/index.html.

Note that I get a 403 Forbidden when I try to access versions.gnupg.org.

• ebo added a comment.Tue, Apr 22, 8:46 AM

regarding the 403: one has to try the correct page AFAIK. Didn't research which one, look in the update checker code.

• ebo mentioned this in T7636: Draft: Kleopatra: Handle not available keyserver or WKD when updating a certificate.Fri, May 2, 2:42 PM