[Bioc-devel] RCurl on Windows

[Vincent Carey]

I reproduced the problem you noted.  Rebuilding RCurl with (an updated?)
openssl for
windows is not a slam-dunk for me at the moment.  Can the curl package do
what you need?

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:49 AM James W. MacDonald <jmacdon using uw.edu> wrote:

> FYI, there appears to be a problem with RCurl on Windows, most likely due
> to building against an old version of OpenSSL. Or at least that's what
> Google tells me. Anyway, reproducible code:
>
> > library(RCurl)
> > url <- "www.uniprot.org/mapping"
> > params <- c(from = "ACC+ID", to = "PDB_ID", format = "tab", query =
> "P31946 P62258")
> > getForm(url, .params = params, .opts = list(FOLLOWLOCATION = TRUE))
> Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE)  :
>   error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol
> version
>
> I sent the same to cran using r-project.org, which is the email for the
> maintainer. So they have been notified, but maybe somebody knows whomever
> is actually maintaining RCurl, and can pull a string?
>
> Best,
>
> Jim
>
>
>
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