Re: cabal-install: Replacing HTTP with HTTPS

2014-04-02 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> The big question we have to answer first is, how do we want to support SSL? > Do we want to use an existing, well-tested, well scrutinized SSL > implementation and FFI bind to it? If so, which one and why? If not, are we > comfortable enough with writing a correct SSL implementation? That's very

Re: cabal-install: Replacing HTTP with HTTPS

2014-04-02 Thread Johan Tibell
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: > On 2014-04-01 at 22:43:47 +0200, Nikita Karetnikov wrote: > > Turns out cabal-install itself uses HTTP. (Try to grep for "hackage" in > > the source tree.) Is it due to the HTTP library, which doesn't support > > HTTPS (4000.2.12

Re: cabal-install: Replacing HTTP with HTTPS

2014-04-02 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
On 2014-04-01 at 22:43:47 +0200, Nikita Karetnikov wrote: > Turns out cabal-install itself uses HTTP. (Try to grep for “hackage” in > the source tree.) Is it due to the HTTP library, which doesn’t support > HTTPS (4000.2.12 returns “user error (https not supported)”)? > > Is there any interest in