Figure out SSL requirements for installation

yongrenjie commented 1 year ago

We had lots of issues at Hack Week trying to get HTTPS requests to work.

A full list of steps that may be necessary to get it to work:

Remove entirely ~/.opam
Reinstall opam and dependencies according to README
brew install openssl@3. This did something to 'regenerate CA certificates' which may have been useful see https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/64ecb97044995cfb904e094361c028cbf244fd8b/Formula/ca-certificates.rb. May need reinstalling if already installed
opam install lwt_ssl
opam install cohttp-lwt-unix (needs to be recompiled)

and then it worked, but it's not obvious which of them (or combination thereof) were needed.

Would be nice to have another laptop on which it doesn't work so that we can test.

yongrenjie commented 1 year ago

For now lwt_ssl has been added to package dependencies.

yongrenjie commented 1 year ago

Seems to be stable enough.

alan-turing-institute / whatwhat