Re: Files on a server

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 5/17/2018 9:54 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 17 May 2018, at 09:39, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 17 May 2018, at 09:32, Ulrike Fischer <news3@nililand.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am Wed, 16 May 2018 14:23:42 +0200 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:
>>>
>>>> Or use luasocket, which is included in the luatex binary:
>>>
>>> But I'm right that this works only with http and not with https?
>>
>> Works ok for me. Did you test?
> 
> Oh, sorry. It seems it is sneakily rewriting the https:// to http://,
> and so does not _actually_ work. Which makes sense, now that I think
> about it.  Doing https would need openssl support, which is unlikely to
> ever be built into luatex.
> 
> Sorry for being misleading,
i have (among a few others such experiments) a util-crl.lua file that 
uses libcurl (using ffi) because it's one of the things we used to test 
ffi support in luatex

i didn't add that to the distribution because i'm not sure what libname 
on windows to use (mojca and i discussed the option to ship some libs 
with the garden distribition at some time) and i don't want to end up in 
endless discussions about lib names on systems

some day i might add this one (if the right lib is found it works ok .. 
performance on my old laptop is is 5000 https://tug.org pages in 100 
sec, 5000 pragma website main pages in 70 sec)

(fwiw: i do use curl but just call the binary which in practice is just 
as efficient because one seldom does a lot in a run)

(and i use the socket lib for other things)

Hans


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