does get-url support https?

[scusack]

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.

[HPW]

get-url supports the HTTP GET protocol.



I do not think that it does support the secure protocol.

[Lutz]

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

[itistoday]

No SSL protocol support yet

Any plans for this? Would be rather useful if get/put/post-url functions supported this.

[Lutz]

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">http://newlisper.blogspot.com/2007/06/p ... sp_16.html">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">http://www.newlisp.org/modules/various/ ... p.src.html">http://www.newlisp.org/modules/various/amazon.lsp.src.html



The module assumes you already have keys.

[itistoday]

Yeah I'm currently using 'curl' right now, was just wondering if there were any plans for building this into newlisp.