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Forum => Anything else we might add? => Topic started by: scusack on April 28, 2006, 02:16:00 AM

Title: does get-url support https?
Post by: scusack on April 28, 2006, 02:16:00 AM
Hi all,



I have been trying ;



(get-url "http://www.foo...bar.com") which works beautifully but;



(get-url "https://www.foo...bar.com/") just seems to spin  forever without returning anything.  I usually have to kill newLisp (on winXP) as it stops responding.



I haven't tried it on my linux box yet, does anybody know if get-url supports https out of the box, I couldn't find anything in the help doco.



Regards, Simon Cusack.
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Post by: HPW on April 28, 2006, 03:23:05 AM
get-url supports the HTTP GET protocol.



I do not think that it does support the secure protocol.
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Post by: Lutz on April 28, 2006, 05:13:11 AM
No SSL protocol support yet but you can specify a timeout in milli seconds:
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> (get-url "https://www.foo...bar.com/") 2000)
"ERR: timeout"
>


because https is not implemented, newLISP will still try port 80, but you can force it to the SSL default of 443:


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> (get-url "https://www.foo...bar.com:443" 2000)
"ERR: invalid response from server"
>


now it will return right away, but again these are all games because https:// support is not implemented.



As a work around use the newLISP 'exec' funtion with the 'curl' UNIX utility:


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(exec "curl https:// ......")


This will return all standart out from the curl utility in a list of strings to newLISP.



Lutz
Title: Re:
Post by: itistoday on February 15, 2010, 10:45:21 AM
Quote from: "Lutz"No SSL protocol support yet


Any plans for this? Would be rather useful if get/put/post-url functions supported this.
Title: Re: does get-url support https?
Post by: Lutz on February 15, 2010, 12:55:54 PM
Most Unix systems have libcurl on it. It is possible to write a module to do SSL via https and other stuff. Until such a module exists you could use the method, Cormullion uses to post to blogspot.com:



http://newlisper.blogspot.com/2007/06/posting-to-google-blogger-using-newlisp_16.html



Then there is also the Amazon module to communicate with there ec2 data services via https:



http://www.newlisp.org/modules/various/amazon.lsp.src.html



The module assumes you already have keys.
Title: Re: does get-url support https?
Post by: itistoday on February 15, 2010, 02:17:21 PM
Yeah I'm currently using 'curl' right now, was just wondering if there were any plans for building this into newlisp.
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