GNU gettext - Bugs: bug #57847, Internet connection opened without...
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bug #57847: Internet connection opened without user consent by msginit
Submitter: | Guido Flohr <gflohr> | ||
Submitted: | Tue 18 Feb 2020 07:57:18 AM UTC | ||
Category: | Translator tools | Severity: | 3 - Normal |
Item Group: | None | Status: | Not a Bug |
Privacy: | Public | Assigned to: | haible |
Open/Closed: | Closed |
Sun 23 Feb 2020 07:59:24 PM UTC, comment #2: |
Bruno Haible <haible> |
Sun 23 Feb 2020 06:20:23 PM UTC, comment #1: Nearly no sensitive data is transmitted:
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Bruno Haible <haible> |
Tue 18 Feb 2020 07:57:18 AM UTC, original submission:
The tool msginit tries to download an up-to-date copy of the translation team table from the internet. The user is not prompted, before the connection is openened. And there is also no commandline-option to opt out of it.
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Guido Flohr <gflohr> |
Depends on the following items: None found
Items that depend on this one: None found
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Date | Changed by | Updated Field | Previous Value | => | Replaced by |
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2020-02-23 | haible | Attached File | - | Added get-from-msginit-unencrypted-via-java.png, #48484 | |
Attached File | - | Added get-from-msginit-unencrypted-via-wget.png, #48485 | |||
Attached File | - | Added get-from-msginit-encrypted.png, #48486 | |||
Category | None | Translator tools | |||
Status | None | Not a Bug | |||
Assigned to | None | haible | |||
Open/Closed | Open | Closed |
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Corresponding source code
Regarding the User-Agent string: When urlget relies on the Java implementation, I'm disabling a too informative User-Agent string through
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=c8fe23519e66963a2eb837a2c1209ffae8300ddd