How do I "add https support" to cygwin?

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About to attend a course and a requirement is a laptop with linux or cygwin

Another is

cygwin requires https support to be installed

This is likely because I will need to use cUrl to fetch https pages

So I installed and updated cygwin to latest, but cannot find anywhere how to "install https support"

UPDATE

downloaded certificates from mozilla as suggested in https://stackoverflow.com/a/13105921/562459
exported proxy settings - needs to go in the .bashrc or similar

export http_proxy=http://nameofyourproxy:xxxx/  
export https_proxy=http://nameofyourproxy:xxxx/

where xxxx is the proxy port number

you need BOTH http and https if not you get

curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'www.google.com'

when you do

curl -L https://www.google.com

UPDATE 2

I needed to export https too of course and I needed to put the certs in the right place.

CAfile: /usr/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt

So I renamed the download to ca-bundle.crt and copied it to

<install path>cygwin\usr\ssl\certs

and that was it.

In cygwin, I wouldn't expect this `/windows/system32/curl-ca-bundle.crt`. Instead, I'd expect something like this: `/cygdrive/c/windows/system32/curl-ca-bundle.crt` — Mike Sherrill 'Cat Recall', May 10 '13 at 12:57
Windows path is *probably* something like `c:\cygwin\usr\ssl\...` Cygwin path is *probably* something like `/usr/ssl/...` or `/cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/ssl/...`. — Mike Sherrill 'Cat Recall', May 10 '13 at 13:38

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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It depends. You need to ask somebody for clarification.

If you're expected to run Apache on your laptop, you need a certificate. Search online for "configure Apache https". Here's one search result.

But if, for example, you're expected to use cURL to fetch pages using https, I think you just need to install some public keys. I don't think you need the most recent version of cURL, as the linked answer implies, but I could be wrong.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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answered May 10 '13 at 09:53

Mike Sherrill 'Cat Recall'

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I was having a totally different problem, because I couldn't clone my private gist from GitHub.com using Cygwin due to -maybe- wrong or expired default ca-certificates. So I replaced the default one with the given one from the 2nd answer you linked and now it works perfectly !!! :) – Mickäel A. Nov 09 '13 at 14:38

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 09 '17 at 21:42

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Little late, but: If you're using cygwin, all you need to do is start the cygwin terminal as administrator, and then run:

update-ca-trust

This will fetch and store the certificates in the correct location.

answered Apr 09 '17 at 21:42

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Yeah - 3.5 years later it is no longer an issue – mplungjan Apr 10 '17 at 04:09
Thank you, your answer saved me lots of time. – Gregor Woiwode Sep 19 '17 at 22:06

How do I "add https support" to cygwin?

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