[racket] retrieving an https url

From: Jordan Schatz (jordan at noionlabs.com)
Date: Sat Jun 18 17:05:30 EDT 2011

> HTTPS support should *really*, *really* be in Racket out of the box,
> so that "get-pure-port" and friends do the right thing whether it's
> HTTP or HTTPS.
I'd second that...

I haven't gotten to it yet but I think serving HTTPS also requires
jumping through some hoops?

Anyway HTTPS is something I have to deal with all the time in my work as
a web developer and I think it would help people's perception of racket
as a professional web dev language if it was more out of the box.

Shalom,
Jordan

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 04:53:00PM -0400, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote at 06/18/2011 04:30 PM:
> >I've put all of these examples up on the GitHub Racket wiki:
> >  https://github.com/plt/racket/wiki/HTTP-over-SSL
> >
> >Hopefully, that will be a useful reference the next time someone asks about SSL.
> 
> HTTPS support should *really*, *really* be in Racket out of the box,
> so that "get-pure-port" and friends do the right thing whether it's
> HTTP or HTTPS.
> 
> No more sending users on wild goose chases through official manuals,
> and multiple wikis, and Googling through four different duplicate
> archives of the email list.
> 
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