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I am building some functions to pull csv files from a website (in this case Workday) that requires basic authentication. I am noticing httr is not performing as expected

When I use the following,

httr::GET('https://wd5-services1.myworkday.com/ccx/service/')

I get this error

Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) : 
  Failure when receiving data from the peer

When I use 

RCurl::getURL('https://wd5-services1.myworkday.com/ccx/service/')

I get the following (which is the result i want!)

[1] "500 : Invalid request"

My question is why is httr erroring out, when RCurl (and cmd line curl too) is returning the proper http error?

blakiseskream
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  • **update**. it looks like Worday updated their SSL cert. When i use `RCurl::getURL()` now I get a `error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure` but when i use `httr::GET()` I now get the correct result. So the `curl_fetch_memory()` error must have something to do with SSL ciphers.. I just don't know what. – blakiseskream Feb 07 '19 at 01:12

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For me httr:GET works like expected. Anyway you can file a bug at github: https://github.com/r-lib/httr. Make sure to provide additional information like operating system.

httr::GET('https://wd5-services1.myworkday.com/ccx/service/')
#> Response [https://wd5-services1.myworkday.com/ccx/service/]
#>   Date: 2018-09-23 11:09
#>   Status: 500
#>   Content-Type: text/plain
#>   Size: 21 B

Created on 2018-09-23 by the reprex package (v0.2.1)

Birger
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