Re: [Caml-list] https and Ocamlnet

[Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.TROESTLER@umons.ac.be>]

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Hi Alan,

Did you install conf-gnutls ?

Cheers,
C.


On 25 September 2019 at 15:49 CEST, Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a small utility that downloads and parses the RSS feed from
> ocaml.org to include in the OCaml Weekly News, but a recent change to
> ocaml.org broke it: it seems to only be served through https. I tried to
> add a TLS provider, but it's still failing with a cryptic error message.
>
> Here is an extract of the code showing the problem:
>
> #+begin_src ocaml
> let () = Nettls_gnutls.init()
>
> let site = "https://ocaml.org"
> let feed_name = "/feed.xml"
>
> let planet = Nethttp_fs.http_fs site
> let feedic = planet # read [] feed_name
> let feed_string = Netchannels.string_of_in_obj_channel feedic
> let () = feedic # close_in()
> #+end_src
>
> I can compile it with
>
> ocamlfind ocamlc -o test -linkpkg -package netclient,nettls-gnutls
> test.ml
>
> but when I run it, I get this error
>
> Fatal error: exception Nettls_gnutls.TLS.Error(GNUTLS_E_PUSH_ERROR)
>
> I know nothing of TLS and searching for the error did not point me
> toward any solution.
>
> I'm using gnutls 3.6.9 and ocamlnet 4.1.6.
>
> How can I access the site using https?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan


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