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mplungjan
mplungjan

Reputation: 178094

How do I "add https support" to cygwin?

About to attend a course and a requirement is a laptop with linux or cygwin

Another is

cygwin requires https support to be installed

This is likely because I will need to use cUrl to fetch https pages

So I installed and updated cygwin to latest, but cannot find anywhere how to "install https support"

UPDATE

  1. downloaded certificates from mozilla as suggested in https://stackoverflow.com/a/13105921/562459
  2. exported proxy settings - needs to go in the .bashrc or similar
export http_proxy=http://nameofyourproxy:xxxx/  
export https_proxy=http://nameofyourproxy:xxxx/

where xxxx is the proxy port number

you need BOTH http and https if not you get

curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'www.google.com'

when you do

curl -L https://www.google.com

UPDATE 2

I needed to export https too of course and I needed to put the certs in the right place.

CAfile: /usr/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt

So I renamed the download to ca-bundle.crt and copied it to 

<install path>cygwin\usr\ssl\certs

and that was it.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6282

Answers (2)

Stragulus
Stragulus

Reputation: 1113

Little late, but: If you're using cygwin, all you need to do is start the cygwin terminal as administrator, and then run:

update-ca-trust

This will fetch and store the certificates in the correct location.

Upvotes: 3

Mike Sherrill &#39;Cat Recall&#39;
Mike Sherrill &#39;Cat Recall&#39;

Reputation: 95612

It depends. You need to ask somebody for clarification.

If you're expected to run Apache on your laptop, you need a certificate. Search online for "configure Apache https". Here's one search result.

But if, for example, you're expected to use cURL to fetch pages using https, I think you just need to install some public keys. I don't think you need the most recent version of cURL, as the linked answer implies, but I could be wrong.

Upvotes: 3

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