On Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 4:49:23 PM UTC+2, Emmanuel Charpentier 
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> Le jeudi 27 octobre 2016 16:04:52 UTC+2, Jean-Pierre Flori a écrit :
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>> On Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 3:59:26 PM UTC+2, Emmanuel Charpentier 
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>>> Le jeudi 27 octobre 2016 13:10:17 UTC+2, François a écrit :
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>>>> It is a most interesting point because it explain why 
>>>> the R binary installed from epel for RH7.1 and family 
>>>> isn’t linked to openssl. 
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>>> How old is RH7.1 ? The introduction of the libcurl requirement dates 
>>> from the R 3.3.0 release, (May 3, 2016).
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>>> I note that Debian (notoriously twitchy about license issues) didn't 
>>> seem to have any qualms packaging 3.3.0, nor 3.3.1. 
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>> I'd say Debian links curl to GnuTLS.
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> Probably not : My system's curl-config --protocols says that HTTPS: is 
> supported. A trial of curl's configure --without-ssl --with-gnutls does not 
> claim to support it (in the summary printed at th end of ./configure...).
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> Are you sure you  installed the gnutls dev headers?
GnuTLS provides an SSL implem, not just SSL.
 

> However, I'm not sure : Debian's blurb about libcurl3-gnutls says that it 
> supports https, imaps, ldaps, smtps and pop3s.
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> To be sure, I'll have to setup a virtual machine with a minimal 
> environment (no openssl, of course) and try to setup libcurl (and, if 
> successful, Sage) in that environment. This is time consuming, so not quite 
> real soon...
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You mean with gnutls?
Or with no ssl/tls at all?

I already did the latter and it works (modulo hacking R's configure).

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