[R] curl options?

[Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal]

Found it.  On June 9,  in the R-developers mail-list,  a chain under the topic "SSL certificate issues".

-Roy


> On Jul 24, 2020, at 1:21 PM, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <roy.mendelssohn using noaa.gov> wrote:
> 
> Thank you very much.  That indeed did work,  more specifically as (to include solution for the record):
> 
>> sshInfo <- rerddap::info('hawaii_soest_f75b_adc6_12ab', url = 'https://apdrc.soest.hawaii.edu/erddap/', ssl_verifyhost=0, ssl_verifypeer=0)
> 
> BTW - my clock and date are fine, the reason it works on some systems has to do with the SSL library being used, whether openSSL or libreSSL.  And as I said,  similar happened to R itself for a very short time.  I can't find the references to the email exchange,  but Simon Urbanek gave a very nice explanation of why this was happening.  I also wonder whether it really is desirable to ignore an expired Cert in the Cert search path.  Not particularly knowledgeable on this,  but my offhand feeling is that could lead to problems.
> 
> Thanks again for the solution!
> 
> -Roy
> 
> 
>> On Jul 23, 2020, at 4:20 PM, Rasmus Liland <jral using posteo.no> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2020-07-23 14:56 -0700, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal via R-help wrote:
>>> I am trying to get the following command to work:
>>> 
>>>> sshInfo <- rerddap::info('hawaii_soest_f75b_adc6_12ab', url = 'https://apdrc.soest.hawaii.edu/erddap/') 
>>> 
>>> On a Mac at least (but I know for a 
>>> fact not necessarily on other OSes) I 
>>> get:
>>> 
>>>> Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(x$url$url, handle = x$url$handle) : 
>>>> SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired
>>> 
>>> Parenthetically,  this also happened 
>>> with R itself awhile back  where an 
>>> intermediate cert on the search path 
>>> had expired,  not the cert of the 
>>> service itself,  and depending on 
>>> which implementation of ssl was used,  
>>> it either ignored it or threw an 
>>> error,  as  in this case.  Someone I 
>>> am working with on another OS can 
>>> indeed run the same command,  so if 
>>> your particular OS may not have an 
>>> issue
>> 
>> I can download the dataset without 
>> problems on my Linux thinkpad.  Perhaps 
>> you can provide some more info (but I do 
>> not know what ...) so I/others can 
>> reproduce this strange error ... 
>> 
>> Have you checked the time on the laptop 
>> being correct and not set to e.g. 
>> 1970-01-01 01:29?  In the past, I have 
>> found ssl errors are caused by the time 
>> being off on my laptop, as in the case 
>> of a flat cmos battery.
>> 
>>> Anyhow, for a problem a I am working 
>>> on I need to access this server with 
>>> that and related commands.  
>>> 'rerddap::info()' allows me to pass 
>>> curl options,  and normally with Curl 
>>> you can get around the expired 
>>> certificate using the  '-k' or 
>>> '--insecure' option.  When I look at:
>>> 
>>>> curl::curl_options()
>>> 
>>> I do not see this option. I do not 
>>> understand all the options listed 
>>> there,  so maybe that option is in a 
>>> different form that I am missing. Or 
>>> is there another way around this still 
>>> using 'curl' .  Using another function 
>>> that does similar to 'curl'  is not an 
>>> option, because I need the 
>>> 'rerddap::info()' call which calls a 
>>> package called "crul" which ultimately 
>>> calls 'curl'.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> -Roy
>>> 
>>> PS - And yes I informed the owner of 
>>> the site about the expired 
>>> certificate,  that was a couple of 
>>> weeks ago.
>> 
>> Perhaps setting
>> 
>> 	options("ssl_verifyhost"=0, "ssl_verifypeer"=0) 
>> 
>> helps? [1]
>> 
>> Best,
>> Rasmus
>> 
>> [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47715918/how-to-pass-the-curl-insecure-alternative-when-using-r
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Roy Mendelssohn
Supervisory Operations Research Analyst
NOAA/NMFS
Environmental Research Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
***Note new street address***
110 McAllister Way
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone: (831)-420-3666
Fax: (831) 420-3980
e-mail: Roy.Mendelssohn using noaa.gov www: https://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/

"Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill."
"From those who have been given much, much will be expected" 
"the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -MLK Jr.