Open regellosigkeitsaxiom opened 7 years ago
psibi
commented
7 years ago Basically, this package doesn't support https. I think http://haskell.org redirects to https://haskell.org and it fails then. I agree there should be a better description message.
As a test, does this URL work: http://google.com ?
regellosigkeitsaxiom
commented
7 years ago Yes, http://google.com works.
Error reproduces on many websites which should be plain HTTP.
On one of my websites with forced https error is Left "Failed to connect: Success".
Will research more.
psibi
commented
7 years ago Yeah, HTTPS is not supported by the underlying C library which is used by this haskell package. I have been planning to replace the C library with a more modern one (which supports HTTPS, etc) once I get time.
In fact you can use wget to see why it doesn't work for haskell.org:
@sibi::jane { ~ }-> wget http://haskell.org
--2017-01-09 01:01:46-- http://haskell.org/
Resolving haskell.org (haskell.org)... 23.253.242.70, 2001:4800:7817:104:be76:4eff:fe04:f608
Connecting to haskell.org (haskell.org)|23.253.242.70|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.haskell.org/ [following]
--2017-01-09 01:01:46-- http://www.haskell.org/
Resolving www.haskell.org (www.haskell.org)... 162.242.239.16, 2001:4802:7802:102:be76:4eff:fe20:9d4a
Connecting to www.haskell.org (www.haskell.org)|162.242.239.16|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://www.haskell.org/ [following]
--2017-01-09 01:01:47-- https://www.haskell.org/
Connecting to www.haskell.org (www.haskell.org)|162.242.239.16|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 36021 (35K) [text/html]
Saving to: ‘index.html’You can see that there is a redirection happening to https and hence it is failing.
I am clearly connected to the internet, but:
What details about my connection might be useful? Or it is not just me?