Merge "pkg/httputil: fix checkSystemRoots for Go1.6"

pkg/httputil/certs.go

@@ -197,11 +197,51 @@ func checkSystemRoots() {
 		return
 	}
 
+	// Copied from https://golang.org/pkg/crypto/x509/#example_Certificate_Verify
+	// because, as of Go1.6, we need to verify against a real certificate, to check
+	// if the RootCAs are found.
+	const dummyCertPEM = `
+-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
+MIIDujCCAqKgAwIBAgIIE31FZVaPXTUwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEFBQAwSTELMAkGA1UE
+BhMCVVMxEzARBgNVBAoTCkdvb2dsZSBJbmMxJTAjBgNVBAMTHEdvb2dsZSBJbnRl
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+yE+vPxsiUkvQHdO2fojCkY8jg70jxM+gu59tPDNbw3Uh/2Ij310FgTHsnGQMyA==
+-----END CERTIFICATE-----`
+
 	// Verify a dummy cert just to test whether the system roots
 	// are available.  This depends on knowing that the x509
 	// package returns this type of error first, before checking
 	// the certificate's validity.
-	_, err := new(x509.Certificate).Verify(x509.VerifyOptions{})
+	// The dummy cert should not be just an empty cert, because as of Go
+	// 1.6, one would get the
+	// "x509: missing ASN.1 contents; use ParseCertificate" error before
+	// hitting the SystemRootsError.
+	// Related: https://github.com/camlistore/camlistore/issues/705
+	block, _ := pem.Decode([]byte(dummyCertPEM))
+	if block == nil {
+		panic("failed to decode dummy certificate PEM")
+	}
+	dummyCert, err := x509.ParseCertificate(block.Bytes)
+	if err != nil {
+		panic("failed to parse dummy certificate: " + err.Error())
+	}
+	_, err = dummyCert.Verify(x509.VerifyOptions{})
 	_, isSysRootError := err.(x509.SystemRootsError)
 	sysRootsGood = !isSysRootError
 }