Re: https and emacs and package archives

[Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> I'm not familiar enough with HTTPS to know what "The plain HTTP request
> was sent to HTTPS port" means.

It means that package opened a request on 443 but did not send an
encrypted request.


> AFAIK, package.el does not pay attention to the transport at all, it
> just uses the base-url as-is without ever tweaking it (so it also works
> for file:// URLs), so I think it's more likely that the problem is in
> the URL.el package rather than in package.el.

Possibly.

It is a regression though. It works fine with 24.3


> But we'd still want to fix the problem with https ;-)

Idk how we'll do that. We could package package.el and ask people to
upgrade.



Nic