Raul, can you merge the PR yourself? Thanks. On Tue, Mar 29, 2022, 10:10 PM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 9:52 AM 'Michael Day' via General > <[email protected]> wrote: > > And yet this works on this laptop running Windows 11: > > > > #qqq =. gethttp 'https://code2.jsoftware.com/' > > 715 > > qqq > > curl performs SSL certificate verification by default, using a "bundle" > > of Certificate Authority (CA) public keys (CA certs). If the default > > bundle file isn't adequate, you can specify an alternate file > > using the --cacert option. > > If this HTTPS server uses a certificate signed by a CA represented in > > the bundle, the certificate verification probably failed due to a > > problem with the certificate (it might be expired, or the name might > > not match the domain name in the URL). > > If you'd like to turn off curl's verification of the certificate, use > > the -k (or --insecure) option. > > That's the problem I was trying to report. > > This next paragraph is from memory, so you might want to back up the > ca-bundle.crt file, just in case. > > If you download https://curl.se/ca/cacert.pem and save it as > ~addons/web/gethttp/ca-bundle.crt, gethttp'code2.jsoftware.com' will > return the html content of the page instead of curl's warning about a > certificate error. > > And, since that ca-bundle.crt is distributed as a part of web/gethttp, > this means that that addon needs to be updated. > > I guess I should put together a pull request with that update. (Though > what I really would like to do is deploy the automated download > mechanism documented at https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html in a > fashion which auto-deploys the addon, perhaps with a manual test and > review stage.) > > (Actually, while composing this email, stopped for a few minutes and > went ahead and submitted that pull request.) > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
