The gethttp addon only bundles win32 curl binary so that I think
using native curl on linux and osx is assumed. I have very
little real experience in using curl, since I normally use wget.
You suggested replacing the curl.exe in gethttp addon with one
that with ssl, and I found there are many windows binary
provided on the webpage. My question was which _windows_ binary
should be a candidate to be bundled with gethttp addon and
more importantly should we trust the cert file contained in those
packages.

Пн, 26 сен 2016, Raul Miller написал(а):
> That is a good question.
> 
> I ran through the download wizard a few times and it gave plausible
> answers for win32 and win64. I did not test them, but I can if you
> think that's a worthwhile exercise.
> 
> I also tried the download wizard for osx and it linked me to an
> external site (fink), and the download links were very finely grained
> for osx version, but they did not work. So I looked closer, and on OSX
> I am using /usr/bin/curl which I think means it came from apple.
> Double checking (brew info curl) gave me this note:
> 
> macOS already provides this software and installing another version in
> parallel can cause all kinds of trouble.
> 
> So probably best to not install curl on osx.
> 
> Similarly, for linux, it's probably best to use a native curl.
> 
> Does this help?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Raul
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 6:44 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > There are many windows buils at its official website,
> > * https://curl.haxx.se/download.html
> >
> > Which one is the best for inclusion in J addons?
> >
> > Сб, 24 сен 2016, Raul Miller написал(а):
> >> Further note:
> >>
> >> gethttp uses the instance of curl installed in 
> >> addons/web/gethttp/bin/curl.exe
> >>
> >> Currently, this is being built without libssl support, which is why
> >> gethttp fails with https urls.
> >>
> >> This probably should be fixed, given how prevalent https is becoming
> >> (boosted by hostile activities on the internet, and the general
> >> tendency of people to not know how to deal with that).
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> --
> >> Raul
> >>
> >> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 6:59 PM, John Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Ahh,
> >> >
> >> > A good reason to move to win10
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 3:43 PM, greg heil <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On 12 September 2016 at 14:26, John Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> > Things like https 64 bit curl are so fundamental that the irritants
> >> >> should be crushed on common OSs by now.
> >> >>
> >> >> i just used curl under W10 64b, natively in powershell, and it worked
> >> >> on a https url...
> >> >>
> >> >> ~greg
> >> >> krsnadas.org
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> >> >
> >> >
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