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SSL issue?
I am trying to make a simple GET call in R and I am getting the following error. From the API documentation it says that I need to disable the ssl verification. Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) : timed out before SSL handshake
Tested with the following and the issue still persist. library(httr) set_config(config(use_ssl=0L, ssl_verifypeer=0L, ssl_verifyhost=0L, sslversion=3))
Please advise.
I suspect you may be better off opening this in the curl repo:
https://github.com/jeroen/curl/issues
There's a really nice investigation into this issue in https://github.com/Ensembl/ensembl-rest/issues/427#issue-614497457
As far as getting a working solution in using httr this worked for me:
library(httr)
url <- "https://rest.ensembl.org/"
## This fails
res <- GET(url)
#> Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle): error:14094410:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert handshake failure
## lower the security level
httr_config <- config(ssl_cipher_list = "DEFAULT@SECLEVEL=1")
res <- with_config(config = httr_config, GET(url))
res
#> Response [https://rest.ensembl.org/]
#> Date: 2020-10-01 10:32
#> Status: 200
#> Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
#> Size: 31.5 kB
#>
#>
#> <!DOCTYPE html>
#>
#>
#>
#> <html lang="en">
#> <head>
#> <script src="/static/js/20-prettify.js"></script>
#> <script src="/static/js/30-jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script>
#> ...
