Bug 422611

SUMMARY
The option to select a keyserver to communicate with in the Key Server Dialog window is inoperative; the default keyserver is always used instead.


DESCRIPTION
Finding one of my keys to be absent from keys2.kfwebs.net, the site KGpg itself directs to when selecting the menu item Keys|Open Key URL, I entered the application settings and added it to the list of keyservers successfully. Proceeding to the menu item File|Key Server Dialog, I selected the new keyserver and the key in question from the drop-down lists and clicked the Export button.

Though the message indicated that the outcome was a success, the output below indicated that the contacted server was my default keyserver and not the specific one I had selected above. Subsequent packet capture on TCP port 11371 using Wireshark confirmed that was indeed the case. I observed that the keyserver selection drop-down on the Key Server Dialog window was ignored in every iteration of my debug attempts regardless of which server was chosen, communication always took place with the configured default keyserver.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Kubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" with KDE Neon Dev-Unstable package repository active
KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.71.0
Qt Version: 5.14.2