(chibi net http-client) does not seem to support HTTPS

[Zambito1]

> (http-get "http://httpbin.org")
#<Input-Port 140185626098688>
> (http-get "https://httpbin.org")
ERROR: couldn't retrieve url
    "https://httpbin.org"
    ("HTTP/1.1" 400 "Bad Request")

For any HTTP URL this seems to work, but for any HTTPS URL I receive the error shown. I believe this library should handle HTTPS without error.

I realize this is not the easiest task given the dependency on SSL. Perhaps a reasonable solution would be to probe the system for common HTTP clients (such as cURL) and offload HTTPS requests to that.

[ashinn]

snow-chibi actually has an option to use curl.

Another option is (chibi ssl), an external library on snow-fort used by (chibi smtp). Without requiring it in the core, we could check for the presence of it and load it dynamically on https requests.

[Zambito1]

Ah nice, I missed that library. I'm not sure how much effort that would take to do in a portable way. Another possibility could be to add a parameter object so the consumer can provide required SSL procedures. This would increase the complexity of using this library when using HTTPS, but I think it would be easier to implement and would likely be more flexible, since alternative SSL libraries could be used if desired.