Closed carlboe closed 6 years ago
Rob, The HMD website is now wrapped entirely in SSL so that passwords are no longer sent in the clear.
As a result, code using RCurl with a URL of http://www.mortality.org will get a 301 redirect returned, saying to use https://www.mortality.org
In my experiment with local edits of your hmd.mx() function, just changing http:// to https:// seemed to return the expected results.
Regards, Carl Boe, HMD
Fixed in https://github.com/robjhyndman/demography/commit/5b1e554974c80368da729a3f4ae038619f2ec9a2
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6 years ago
Rob, The HMD website is now wrapped entirely in SSL so that passwords are no longer sent in the clear.
As a result, code using RCurl with a URL of http://www.mortality.org will get a 301 redirect returned, saying to use https://www.mortality.org
In my experiment with local edits of your hmd.mx() function, just changing http:// to https:// seemed to return the expected results.
Regards, Carl Boe, HMD