On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:53:33PM +0200, Roel Janssen wrote: > This patch was essential to me being able to interact with HTTPS urls in > R. As far as I understand, by default, R only looks for CURL_CA_BUNDLE > on Windows, but with this patch it looks for CURL_CA_BUNDLE on GNU/Linux > as well. Is this correct? > > I can confirm it works for me, so I'd like to see this patch pushed.
It's good to hear that it works, but I still think we should run it by the upstream maintainers. We are activating C code that they specifically decided not to use on GNU / Linux. Why did they do that?
