monkeysphere-authentication should at least report failed keyserver queries
currently, hkps queries are not functional for monkeysphere authentication. however, the result is that it carries on blindly, without fetching any keys, not even reporting that there was a failure.
it doesn't even complain at the debug log level if you set the keyserver to some insane value like @asdf://notvalid.example.net@
the admin should at least be made aware of failed keyserver queries, since keyserver queries are crucial for fetching things like revocations, expiration updates, and re-keying events.
(from redmine: created on 2010-02-23, closed on 2010-03-14)