[racket] retrieving an https url

25 minutes ago, Greg Hendershott wrote:
> I also agree.
> 
> It should be a very simple change in url-unit.rkt.  The last line of
> `make-ports' is where `tcp-connect' is hardwired: [...]

Yeah, that part isn't complicated, but it was tricky to get things to
conform to the same API it has now.  I did a hack that did that, then
Matthew un-hacked it by a minor extension to the API (one new unit).

The bottom line -- which I should have posted here but forgot -- is
that for almost everyone (= people who just require `net/url') it just
works for https now.  (It's also possible to install trusted certs if
you need that level of security.)

> ;; connector : url -> (string? (integer-in 1 65535) -> input-port? output-port?)
> ;; returns either tcp-connect or ssl-connect
> (define (connector url)
>   (let ([scheme (url-scheme url)])
>     (cond [(not scheme) tcp-connect]
>           [(string=? scheme "http") tcp-connect]
>           [(string=? scheme "https") ssl-connect]
>           [else (url-error "Scheme ~a not supported" (url-scheme url))])))
> [...]

FWIW, the implementation adds a `current-connect-scheme' parameter
that gets set to the scheme, then it's possible to wire in a
`tcp-connect' that uses the tcp version or the ssl version based on
that.

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