Hello Günter,

Thanks for looking at the patch. I don't have much to add, except:

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Guenter <lists_at_gknw.net> wrote:
>
> it seems that my verification was incomplete; looking again at the patch I
> felt that it would not work on Windows, and in fact it didnt, sigh!
> So I hacked up another patch which should now hopefully again work with all
> options *and* on all platforms ...

Yes, I didn't consider Windows at all. I've not used Perl much; and
Perl on Windows perhaps once about 10 years ago. So I don't have any
intuition surrounding writing cross platform Perl, nor do I have it
here to test. Sorry you've had to spend time on this.

>
> but still what I cant get is what the motivation was for the former patch
> which made the script able to output to STDOUT ...??
> Wasnt this script meant all the times for creating a *file* ca-bundle.crt?
> Hell for what reason is it good that it now can output to STDOUT?
> What can someone do with this output on STDOUT?
> Perhaps use it as CGI or what? Even then why not just send the file?
> /me lacks of fantasy to get this ... :-P

No idea either. Round tripping via openssl, then out to ca-bundle.crt
seems to make sense to me too.

>
> Gün.

Regards

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