Comment 3 for bug 145853

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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote : Re: [Bug 145853] Re: Visibly reject FTP uploads done with unrecognized keys

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:32:27PM -0000, Celso Providelo wrote:
> However FTP makes it difficult to warn the user about it. If we are fast
> enough (which is very unlikely) the only thing we could do on the server

I think a keyserver.internal query should be fast enough.

> site is to abandon the connection and it sounds even worse than swallow
> the upload as we are doing.

Hmmm. Can we not make the upload fail somehow ? Permission denied, or
something like that, before closing the connection?

> A quick *workaround* would be announcing the rejections (failures) to a
> public mailing list. What do you think ?

That's bug #145849.