Fedora 8 and KNetworkManager. Part 2

It seems OpenSUSE ships already a new version of KNetworkManager.
As far as I understand Fedora needs to have the new DBus Qt 3 bindings (currently Fedora has an old version of dbus-qt), which OpenSUSE also provides.

Fedora 8 and cURL

Yesterday I've discovered that one module of my project doesn't work, namely, it was a file upload using cURL library. The module suppose to upload files to an https url without checking of peer (insecure upload). I set parameters like CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST to 0. But I got an error in anyway:

Exception: couldn't transfer the InputSandbox file:
"***" to "https://***". Http error code: 0
Curl error: peer certificate cannot be authenticated
with known CA certificates.

Everything was perfectly working for a year or so. But after I have moved to Fedora8 my unit tests of the module started to fail.
I spent several hours and finally found the seed of the problem. If you get similar error while having insecure transfer, that would most probably mean, you are facing an Issue described here and here and here (Bug 387991). It has something to do with cURL with NSS as the SSL engine (instead of OpenSSL).
If you face this problem, one of the solution would be to rebuild cURL with OpenSSL support or wait until developers of Fedora and cURL fix it.

Fedora 8 and KNetworkManager

Yesterday when I get my new Fedora 8 installation ready I found out a very very very upsetting thing - I used KDE (as I always do) but nm-applet appears in my tray :( Unfortunately I also found that KNetworkManager is just a wrapper for nm-applet. VERY BAD news!

Here we get some official explanation:

Since knetworkmanager does not work with the version of NetworkManager available in this release, the KDE Live images use nm-applet from NetworkManager-gnome as a replacement. The gnome-keyring-daemon facility saves passwords for these encryption technologies. The knetworkmanager package in this release is a script that calls nm-applet. The knetworkmanagerpackage will be updated to provide a KDE frontend when a compatible version is available.

Fedora 8 is out

Today, just right know the Fedora 8 has been released :)
http://fedoraproject.org/

Guess what I am going to do with my Fedora 7 installed on my laptop :) Now I know how I will spend this evening...