Post command help

[J. Landman Gay]

Thanks for posting that, Thierry. I'm working on a project that needs 
SSL and your problem had me worried.

It sounds like the issue only occurs on OS X 10.6, right? Mac 10.7+ and 
Windows machines are not affected? Do you know?

On 6/24/13 9:07 AM, Thierry Douez wrote:
> 2013/6/22 Thierry Douez <th.douez at gmail.com>
>
>> Coming back :(
>>
>> More details:
>>
>> I'm on MacOS.
>>
>> Restarting my Mac and my Internet Box and got again the same error:
>>
>> post myData to url "https://myDomain"
>>
>>    <error -Error with certificate at depth: 2 ....>
>>
>> But, executing this line of script always works:
>>
>> get shell("curl -s -d" && quote & myData & quote && "https://myDomain")
>>
>> Executing the same post via Firefox and a form always works too.
>>
>> And after some tries, the post command works again without any clue why?
>>
>> So, looks like the post command over https is not reliable on Mac !
>>
>> Same behavior with LC 5.5,  6....
>>
>
>
>
> ​So, here is the answer form runrev support,
> hoping it will ​help some of you...
>
>
>
>
> I believe this issue could be related to automatic root certificate
> discovery on
> OSX. The below is an excerpt from the LiveCode release notes-
>
> ------------------------------
> -----------------------------------------
> HTTPS – automatic root certificate discovery (4.5 – experimental)
> In previous versions it was necessary to set the sslCertificates property
> to the
> root certificates that HTTPS connections should be verified against.
> Support has
> now been added to locate and load the root certificates installed (and kept
> up to
> date) as part of the OS.
> This uses the standard root certificate keychain on Mac, the standard root
> certificate store on Windows and uses a number of heuristics to locate this
> information on Linux.
> You can easily find out if the system-installed root certificates are being
> found
> by running the following command in the message box:
> get url "https://www.google.com"
> put the result & return & it
> If this results in an error about verification failure then it is likely
> that root
> certificates have not been found. Please let us know (particularly on
> Linux) if you
> find this simple test fails, making sure you give us full details of your
> system
> (e.g. Linux distribution and version).
>
>
> Note: Unfortunately this feature does not currently work correctly on Mac
> 10.6.x.
> For now, we advise including an appropriate root certificates collection
> with your
> application, as was previously necessary, and setting the sslCertificates
> property
> appropriately.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The automatic root certificate discovery is still is experimental for Mac
> OSX and
> we are actively working on implementing it fully.
>
> Another suggestion would be setting the property libUrlSetSSLVerification
> to false
> as this may also resolve the issue..
>
>
> ​Best,
>
> Thierry​
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------
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