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-rw-r--r--dirmngr/ks-engine-http.c4
-rw-r--r--doc/gpg.texi3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/dirmngr/ks-engine-http.c b/dirmngr/ks-engine-http.c
index b996c2573..00d0c4b80 100644
--- a/dirmngr/ks-engine-http.c
+++ b/dirmngr/ks-engine-http.c
@@ -73,7 +73,9 @@ ks_http_fetch (ctrl_t ctrl, const char *url, estream_t *r_fp)
estream_t fp = NULL;
char *request_buffer = NULL;
- err = http_session_new (&session, NULL, NULL, HTTP_FLAG_TRUST_DEF);
+ /* Note that we only use the system provided certificates with the
+ * fetch command. */
+ err = http_session_new (&session, NULL, NULL, HTTP_FLAG_TRUST_SYS);
if (err)
goto leave;
http_session_set_log_cb (session, cert_log_cb);
diff --git a/doc/gpg.texi b/doc/gpg.texi
index 781a18828..0c43c55bd 100644
--- a/doc/gpg.texi
+++ b/doc/gpg.texi
@@ -476,7 +476,8 @@ only LDAP supports them all.
@opindex fetch-keys
Retrieve keys located at the specified URIs. Note that different
installations of GnuPG may support different protocols (HTTP, FTP,
-LDAP, etc.)
+LDAP, etc.). When using HTTPS the system provided root certificates
+are used by this command.
@item --update-trustdb
@opindex update-trustdb