gethttp package refresh?

[Gilles Kirouac]

I regularly use the web/gethttp package in Windows to get data from a
governmental website. Recently my requests ended with

Unknown SSL Protocol Errors

The version of curl supplied with J9.6 is:

curl 7.50.3 (i386-pc-win32) libcurl/7.50.3 OpenSSL/1.0.2j nghttp2/1.15.0

The OpenSSL library appears somewhat outdated. The current OpenSSL
version is 3.5.

An update to curl would probably solve the problem.

~ Gilles

[Gilles Kirouac]

Indeed after replacing the two files in the web/gethttp package by those
of version 8.15.0 of curl, the problem is solved.

Thus a package refresh is welcome.

~ Gilles

[Norman Drinkwater]

curl has been included in Windows system32 since Windows 10 18.03. For windows 11 the version is

D:\>curl --version
curl 8.14.1 (Windows) libcurl/8.14.1 Schannel zlib/1.3.1 WinIDN
Release-Date: 2025-06-09
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps http https imap imaps ipfs ipns mqtt pop3 pop3s smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp ws wss
Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS HSTS HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz NTLM SPNEGO SSL SSPI threadsafe Unicode UnixSockets

It may no longer need to be included in the distribution.

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[bill lam]

Package refreshed latest curl.exe and also default to use windows stock curl.exe.

Please test again. Thanks.

[Gilles Kirouac]

I retested. All is fine now, since the curl.exe provided by windows10 is ok.
Thank you.

~ Gilles