Ignore SSL errors in R httr connection

Question

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I am trying to access a corporate internal web API using:

require(httr)
url = 'https://my_server/api/search/query?q=stuff'
httr::set_config( config(ssl_verifypeer = 0L) )
data <- httr::GET( url, use_proxy(url = "ipaddress:port"), verbose() )

I get:

-> CONNECT my_server:port HTTP/1.1
-> Host: my_server:port
-> User-Agent: libcurl/7.47.1 r-curl/0.9.7 httr/1.1.0
-> Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
-> 
<- HTTP/1.1 200 Connection established
<- 
Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) : 
  SSL connect error    

I used ssl_verifypeer as there are issues with the CA cert of the server. is that what is causing the issue with the SSL connect error ?

How do I bypass this and get the data? is there a way to flick the --insecure option that exists if you run in the linux command line? Note I am running R on windows though.

Erlond

readLines uses a file connection when given a character string, not a url one. Do it explicitly, or better, try httr. Also, you have some questionable syntax. – Filefish

Answer 1

Simply run this line:

httr::set_config(config(ssl_verifypeer = 0L))

Mystify

Answer 2

If someone is coming here looking for a solution for {httr2}, you can do it like this:

library(httr2)
req <- request("https://example.com") %>%
  req_options(ssl_verifypeer = 0)

Millner