On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 10:12:09 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
Downloading files over TLS. This seems that it's something that
should be quite simple to do. My high level goals are
cross-platform and easy distribution. I don't need anything
fancy just a simple API like this:
download("https://url.com";, "/local/file");
Maybe just start wget or something like that?
* Network [6]. This is an Apple specific library provided by
the platform. This is the recommend alternative to
SecureTransport. The problem is that this is not just an
alternative TLS implementation, it's a completely different
alternative to BSD sockets. The API is completely different and
will require some extra layers to to provide a cross-platform
API. This means that I cannot use any of the existing library
to just add TLS, it will be a completely different
implementation, which might be ok. Another big problem is that
it only available on macOS 10.14 and later. I have not decided
yet if this is acceptable or not
Since you want the latest certificate storage, you intend to
support only the latest system. Many root certificates will
timeout now.
* Are there any high level APIs, like NSURLSession, on Windows
that can be used to download files?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winhttp/about-winhttp
