On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Jason Grout
<jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote:
> On 11/20/10 3:35 PM, Jason Grout wrote:
>>
>> On 11/20/10 3:26 PM, Jason Grout wrote:
>>>
>>> This doesn't seem to work:
>>>
>>> load('https://somefile')
>>>
>>> See http://alpha.sagenb.org/home/jason3/43/publish/ for an example and
>>> the errors.
>>
>> Er, *here* are the examples: http://alpha.sagenb.org/home/pub/54/
>>
>> Trying to load a file over https does not work.
>
>
> After experimenting a bit (for example getting https files on OSX works
> fine, though load still has a problem), I discovered that there are two
> issues:
>
> 1. load does not recognize https files as files coming from over the
> network, since it just looks for a string that starts with http://
>
> This is now #10301, and should be an easy fix.
>
> 2. The server needs to have some sort of ssl development package installed
> when python is compiled. I installed libssl-dev on Ubuntu, reinstalled the
A quick note about this. We don't include that package in Sage
because the license on openssl is not GPL compatible. For a few weeks
we did include openssl in Sage, until some undergrad in my Sage class
dropped by my office and ruined my day by telling me about the
licensing issues...
> python spkg, and everything worked great (except for loading not recognizing
> the https:// prefix). In my case, github redirects http urls to https urls,
> so if I used the http url, load recognized it, but then Sage was still able
> to download the file from the https url.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
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