I just need to fetch an https page, and I'm using curl currently by having the curl.exe application in my Path and calling it with a Perl file. However, then I get the error "* Protocol https not supported or disabled in libcurl". I've been looking around and I can't find a solid set of instructions to get it to work. I have installed cygwin, and OpenSSL-Win32 but something tells me I'm going to have to compile curl from scratch. I have no experience with this. How do you do it?
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A:
I think the easiest method is to use a browser to get SSL protected pages. Try with iMacros for Firefox and its command line support (same for Google Chrome here).
Ruby8848
2010-08-25 00:53:21
I might look into that for another project, but this one HAS to be done in curl. Thanks for the info, though!
Sho Minamimoto
2010-08-25 00:59:46
A:
curl --insecure
If you'd like to turn off curl's verification of the certificate, use the -k (or --insecure) option.
Aaron Saunders
2010-08-25 04:48:31