> There are many technical questions that give the very strong impression that somebody is asking how to shoot themselves in the foot. Sure, but some of the st

> There are many technical questions that give the very strong impression that somebody is asking how to shoot themselves in the foot. Sure, but some of the stuff I've looked up in the past is answered with helpful comments like "You won't need to do this, your CA will do this for you" or "this is handled by your certificate verification stack, you don't need to be involved in this stuff". Well, thanks, but I'm actually implementing both of those things right now and I'm having an annoying issue with figuring out how the API for the (very popular but IMHO poorly documented) library I'm using for part of it hangs together. > Yes, people sometimes overcorrect for this which can be annoying, but they are only trying to steer newbies away from shooting themselves in the foot. I think sometimes its because comparatively the respondents are newbies, and are repeating received wisdom.