[Remops] need advice

Jeremy Bentham Admin jeremyadmin at anemone.mooo.com
Fri Oct 10 16:38:01 BST 2014


>It's not totally true mixmaster doesn't grok https.
>
>mixmaster typically uses curl with http (not https)
>as it doesn't assume the user has provided certs and
>there is little use in https with no certs.
>
>If you provided https URLs it should use them like this
>    curl  https://anemone.mooo.com/stats/mlist.txt -o mlist.txt
>which will be ok if you've added cert chains to the
>defaults used by curl (in ~/.curlrc) and will break without certs.
>I haven't tested this but it is deliberate that the input validation
>checks 4 chars for "http" rather than 5 for "http:" so you can provide
>https URLs if you want.
>
>If curl isn't there mixmaster will fall back to wget.

I did not know this - thanks!

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