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Motivation
I got frustrated with Unknown CA errors from Erlang. Meanwhile, curl works just fine with the sites in question:
I couldn’t find a working Elixir lib that uses curl. So I started this ultra-simple and naive (but tested) one.
Usage
iex(1)> CurlEx.get!("https://google.com")
"<html>...</html>"
Currently, Microsoft Edge / Windows is the supported custom User Agent:
iex(2)> CurlEx.get_with_user_agent!("https://google.com", :microsoft_edge_windows)
"<html>...</html>"
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kwando
Try
req. req | HexReq.get("https://grad.tamu.edu/")works fine over here.voltone
That’s because the server has since been reconfigured to send the missing intermediate CA. (
curlfetches missing intermediate CA certificates using the URL in the AIA extension, but Erlang’sssldoes not, also when using Mint/req)kwando
okay, good they got that reconfigured
dogweather
Yep!
Pretty nice—they acted on it.