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From:
Craig A. Berry
Date:
December 10, 2021 16:40
Subject:
Re: OpenSSL alternative support WAS Re: Pre-RFC: supporthttpsout-of-the-box
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CA+vYcVw4+ARp8Y_Lw84H2M1zrAOKHGgTw40kZeP1fQ3XOq1daw@mail.gmail.com
On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 6:44 AM Salvador Fandiño <sfandino@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/12/21 11:37, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> > 2) Are curl and wget likely to be found on Win32? Is there any command line
> >     tool that a HTTP::TIMTOWTDI module can shell out to, to deal with https?
> >
>
> This works for me on Windows 10:
>
> bitsadmin /rawreturn /transfer perl /download ^
>    https://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.34.0.tar.gz ^
>    c:\users\salva\perl2.tgz
>
>
> Also, urlmon.dll provides URLDownloadToFile:
>
>    $d = Win32::API->new(urlmon => URLDownloadToFileA => 'NPPNN', 'N');
>    $d->Call(0, "https://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.34.0.tar.gz",
>             'c:\users\salva\perl3.tgz', 0,0);
>

Those look promising.  It appears that PowerShell's Invoke-WebRequest,
Invoke-RestMethod, and Start-BitsTransfer could all do the job as
well.

Very recent versions of Windows include OpenSSH, but I don't think
it's enabled by default, so sftp is probably not a practical
alternative (if that's even enabled on the server side).

I like the urlmon solution since it doesn't even involve spawning an
external command, but Win32::API is not in core, is it?  So bitsadmin
might be the simplest and most reliable solution.

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