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Re: [PATCH] gnu: r-curl: Respect CURL_CA_BUNDLE variable.
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Leo Famulari |
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Re: [PATCH] gnu: r-curl: Respect CURL_CA_BUNDLE variable. |
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Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:17:59 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) |
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:53:33PM +0200, Roel Janssen wrote:
> This patch was essential to me being able to interact with HTTPS urls in
> R. As far as I understand, by default, R only looks for CURL_CA_BUNDLE
> on Windows, but with this patch it looks for CURL_CA_BUNDLE on GNU/Linux
> as well. Is this correct?
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> I can confirm it works for me, so I'd like to see this patch pushed.
It's good to hear that it works, but I still think we should run it by
the upstream maintainers. We are activating C code that they
specifically decided not to use on GNU / Linux. Why did they do that?