Johannes Schindelin

> is there any configuration to force curl (through httr) to use openSSL instead of winSSL If cURL was compiled with both backends, you can set the environment variable `CURL_SSL_BACKEND=openssl`...

> If cURL was compiled with both backends, you can set the environment variable CURL_SSL_BACKEND=openssl to force OpenSSL to be used. Note: I consider this a work-around, and would much...

The error message looks *a little bit* like the problem described in https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/983, even if that was with WINE, not with real Windows. Keep in mind that I am far...

> I wonder whether there is a chance for you to perform a really quick-and-dirty test where you recompile cURL simply with the second call changed such that it uses...

> Git for Windows is based on MSYS2, correct > which is downstream from Cygwin, correct > and in particular is based on Cygwin DLLs that are a few years...

> this bug is that it is trying to find a gzip.exe on the path @jeremyd2019 I guess it depends on your point of view whether you consider this a...

> What throws me is that I seem to remember that we go out of our way in the MSYS2 runtime to differentiate enough from the Cygwin runtime so that...

@jeremyd2019 since the `tar.exe` we're talking about comes from MSYS2, and since you're a frequent contributor to that project, how about teaching [that `tar` package](https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/tree/HEAD/tar) the trick to append the...

@bAndie91 why don't you give it a try yourself? No need for others to "scratch your itch"...

I wonder whether this is still the case for v3.4.*...