HTTPS

Print an HTTPS URL's content to the console. Checking the host certificate for validity is recommended. The client should not authenticate itself to the server — the webpage https://sourceforge.net/ supports that access policy — as that is the subject of other tasks.

Readers may wish to contrast with the HTTP Request task, and also the task on HTTPS request with authentication.

AutoHotkey

Library: wininet

<lang AutoHotkey>URL := "https://sourceforge.net/" WININET_Init() msgbox % html := UrlGetContents(URL) WININET_UnInit() return

include urlgetcontents.ahk
include wininet.ahk</lang>

Common Lisp

Library: DRAKMA

First grabbing the entire body as a string, and then by pulling from a stream. This is the same code as in HTTP Request; drakma:http-request supports SSL.

<lang lisp>(defun wget-drakma-string (url &optional (out *standard-output*))

 "Grab the body as a string, and write it to out."
 (write-string (drakma:http-request url) out))

(defun wget-drakma-stream (url &optional (out *standard-output*))

 "Grab the body as a stream, and write it to out."
 (loop with body = (drakma:http-request url :want-stream t)
       for line = (read-line body nil nil)
       while line do (write-line line)
       finally (close body)))

Use

(wget-drakma-stream "https://sourceforge.net")</lang>

F#

The underlying .NET classes handle secure web connections the same way they manage insecure connections. <lang fsharp>#light let wget (url : string) =

   let c = new System.Net.WebClient()
   c.DownloadString(url)</lang>

Groovy

<lang groovy>new URL("https://sourceforge.net").eachLine { println it }</lang>

Python

Python's urllib2 (urllib.request in Python3) has support for SSL if the interpreter's underlying httplib libraries were compiled with SSL support. By default this will be the enabled for default Python installations on most platforms.

<lang Python>import urllib2 request = urllib2.urlopen('https://sourceforge.net/') print request.read() request.close()</lang>

R

Library: RCurl

Library: XML

The basic idea is to use getURL (as with HTTP_Request), but with some extra parameters. <lang R>library(RCurl) webpage <- getURL("https://sourceforge.net/", .opts=list(followlocation=TRUE, ssl.verifyhost=FALSE, ssl.verifypeer=FALSE))</lang> In this case, the webpage output contains unprocessed characters, e.g. \" instead of " and \\ instead of \, so we need to process the markup. <lang R>wp <- readLines(tc <- textConnection(webpage)) close(tc)</lang> Finally, we parse the HTML and find the interesting bit. <lang R>pagetree <- htmlTreeParse(wp) pagetree$children$html</lang>

Ruby

This solution doesn't use the open-uri convenience package that the HTTP Request#Ruby solution uses: the Net::HTTP object must be told to use SSL before the session is started. <lang ruby>require 'net/https' require 'uri' require 'pp'

uri = URI.parse('https://sourceforge.net') http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host,uri.port) http.use_ssl = true http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

http.start do

 content = http.get("/")
 p [content.code, content.message]
 pp content.to_hash
 puts content.body

end</lang>

outputs

["302", "Found"]
{"location"=>["http://sourceforge.net/"],
 "content-type"=>["text/html; charset=UTF-8"],
 "connection"=>["close"],
 "server"=>["nginx/0.7.60"],
 "date"=>["Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:20:07 GMT"],
 "content-length"=>["229"],
 "set-cookie"=>
  ["sf.consume=89f65c6fadd222338b2f3de6f8e8a17b2c8f67c2gAJ9cQEoVQhfZXhwaXJlc3ECY2RhdGV0aW1lCmRhdGV0aW1lCnEDVQoH9gETAw4HAAAAhVJxBFUDX2lkcQVVIDEyOWI2MmVkOWMwMWYxYWZiYzE5Y2JhYzcwZDMxYTE4cQZVDl9hY2Nlc3NlZF90aW1lcQdHQdKmt73UN21VDl9jcmVhdGlvbl90aW1lcQhHQdKmt73UN2V1Lg==; expires=Tue, 19-Jan-2038 03:14:07 GMT; Path=/"]}
<html>
 <head>
  <title>302 Found</title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <h1>302 Found</h1>
  The resource was found at <a href="http://sourceforge.net/">http://sourceforge.net/</a>;
you should be redirected automatically.


 </body>
</html>

Tcl

Though Tcl's built-in http package does not understand SSL, it does support the registration of external handlers to accommodate additional protocols. This allows the use of the Tls package to supply the missing functionality with only a single line to complete the registration. <lang tcl>package require http package require tls

Tell the http package what to do with “https:” URLs.
First argument is the protocol name, second the default port, and
third the connection builder command

http::register "https" 443 ::tls::socket

Make a secure connection, which is almost identical to normal
connections except for the different protocol in the URL.

set token [http::geturl "https://sourceforge.net/"]

Now as for conventional use of the “http” package

puts [http::data $token] http::cleanup $token</lang>