Re: Moving to HTTPS

On 01/07/2017 07:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> Yeah, you're right. Or perhaps even more simply we could do:
>> perl -MLWP::Simple -e 'print qq{BAD\n} unless head(q{https://www.postgresql.org});'
> Hmm, so that reports BAD on all four of my buildfarm critters :-(.
>
> On longfin, which is running a current macOS release, "cpan install
> LWP::Protocol::https" seems to be enough to fix it; but on the other
> three, I get various flavors of failure. It looks like the root cause is
> that the versions of the relevant modules that are currently available
> from CPAN assume newer versions of OpenSSL and/or other Perl modules than
> these machines have installed.
>
> I could embark on a massive update binge, but that would sort of defeat
> the purpose of testing against old Perl versions. Thoughts?
>

Ugh. I was afraid of something like that. We might need to look at
providing a proxy or something.

cheers

andrew

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