[Bioc-devel] RCurl on Windows

[James W. MacDonald]

It's not something I need, per se, but what other packages that depend on
RCurl need. This issue was brought to my attention because someone on the
support site had a problem with the UniProt.ws package, which uses RCurl to
download data. Given the reverse dependency tree for RCurl I assume this
problem will have an outsized effect, at least amongst Windows users.

I know that DTL wrote the package back in the day, but apparently the CRAN
maintainers have been de facto maintainers/authors since 2013. So I sent
them the same reproducible error. Anyway, there isn't a current version on
Github (there is a two-year old version at github.com/cran/RCurl), so there
isn't a more interactive way to report the error.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 12:20 PM Vincent Carey <stvjc using channing.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> 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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