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On 10/12/21 19:09, Andrew Hewus Fresh wrote:

> OpenBSD has ftp(1)[1] that grew https GET support as well as shipping
> (obviously?) with LibreSSL and its nc(1) with -c (TLS)[2] support. As I
> said in another post, I have a hack that uses that for https in
> HTTP::Tiny as a "socket" interface so supports any method.

That same approach can also be used with "openssl s_client" that I think
is available in the base distribution of at least NetBSD, FreeBSD and
OpenBSD.

> Windows ships with curl.exe since Windows 10 1803.

Are you sure that you do not confuse "curl" PowerShell cmdlet alias with
the actual binary?

(it has the "wget" alias as well, if that matters)

:-)

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 8:45 PM Tomasz Konojacki <me@xenu.pl> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 10:37:19 +0000
> Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
>
> > 1) What is the OS default certificate store on Windows (that we can
> assume
> > the OS handles updates and revocations), and what module is needed to
> > read it?
>
> OpenSSL can't make use of it, so users rely on the certificates provided
> by Mozilla::CA.
>
> > 2) Are curl and wget likely to be found on Win32? Is there any command
> line
> > tool that a HTTP::TIMTOWTDI module can shell out to, to deal with
> https?
>
> Windows ships with curl.exe since Windows 10 1803.
>
> >
> > other question was
> >
> > *) for bootstrapping how many (well, few) certificates do we need to
> ship?
> > and how often do these change?
>
> Mozilla::CA is the module that provides SSL certificates. Unfortunately
> it's almost always outdated so ideally we should get co-maint on it and
> automate its updates.
>
>
>

On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:11:19 +0400
Elvin Aslanov <rwp.primary@gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you sure that you do not confuse "curl" PowerShell cmdlet alias with
> the actual binary?
>
> (it has the "wget" alias as well, if that matters)
>
> :-)

No, I'm not confusing anything. Also, that alias was removed in
PowerShell 6. Probably because it was conflicting with the said binary.