Problem on reading HTTPS using CURL

[9tontruck]

Hi guys,

I need to parse JSON data from an HTTPS protocol so I downloaded and integrated libcurl into my VS2010.
Everything works fine and sample codes work fine when I use "http" protocol.
However, a CURL error keeps coming out when I try to read from "https" protocol....

The error msg is "Error from cURL: Unsupported protocol"

My code is below. This code is from official web site (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/https.html) What am I missing?? Please help!

    CURL *curl;

    curl = curl_easy_init();
    if(!curl)
    {
        cout << "Unable to initialize cURL interface" << std::endl;
        return;
    }

    string curl_url = "https://www.cia.gov/";
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, curl_url.c_str());
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "libcurl-agent/1.0");

    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0L);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0L);


    const CURLcode rc = curl_easy_perform(curl);

    if( rc != CURLE_OK ) {
        cout << "Error from cURL: " << curl_easy_strerror(rc) << std::endl;
        return;
    }
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);

[histrungalot]

Just ran you code and it worked for me:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cstdio>
#include <curl/curl.h>
int main(void) {
    CURL *curl;

    curl = curl_easy_init();
    if(!curl) {
        std::cout << "Unable to initialize cURL interface" << std::endl;
        return -1;
    }

    std::string curl_url = "https://www.cia.gov/";
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, curl_url.c_str());
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "libcurl-agent/1.0");

    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0L);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0L);

    const CURLcode rc = curl_easy_perform(curl);

    if( rc != CURLE_OK ) {
        std::cout << "Error from cURL: " << curl_easy_strerror(rc) << std::endl;
    }
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
    return 0;
}

Output:

etc...

<title>Welcome to the CIA Web Site &mdash; Central Intelligence Agency</title>

<meta content="Central Intelligence Agency  " name="description" />

<!-- Internet Explorer CSS Fixes -->
<!--[if IE]>
    <style type="text/css" media="all">@import url(/css/IEFixes.css);</style>
<![endif]-->
<!-- Internet Explorer CSS Fixes -->
<!--[if IE]>

<![endif]-->


<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/images/touch_icon.png" />

etc...

[Z33shan]

hello guyz! i've seen this 1st time :/ wot sort of prgramming is it?? something relevant to Socketing?? or wot??

[9tontruck]

It worked?? Wow that is super odd... I guess some settings on my computer are different... hm....

Did you run on Visual Studio 2010 c++ project?

[mitrmkar]

However, a CURL error keeps coming out when I try to read from "https" protocol....
The error msg is "Error from cURL: Unsupported protocol"

You've probably downloaded a version without SSL support (you need SSL for the https protocol).

[9tontruck]

Here's a list of job done by me to integrate libcurl.

1. Download curl-7.25.0.zip which was released on the 22nd of March from http://curl.haxx.se/download.html.
2. Build libcurl with Visual Studio2010.
3. C++ additional include:
   ...\libcurl-7.25.0\include;
4. Linker Input:
   ...\libcurl-7.25.0\lib\DLL-Release\libcurl_imp.lib
   ...\libcurl-7.25.0\lib\LIB-Release\libcurl.lib
5. Write the code above and build as release.
6. Copy libcurl.dll tbb_debug.dll to the release folder.

Did I miss anything here? I believe curl-7.25.0.zip does support SSL as well.

[9tontruck]

Wow this is killing me..

[histrungalot]

Use http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_version_info.html to get info on what you have. There a member to the struct called features which is a bit-mask.
host is an ascii string showing what host information that this libcurl was built for. As discovered by a configure script or set by the build environment.

features can have none, one or more bits set, and the currently defined bits are:

CURL_VERSION_IPV6

supports IPv6

CURL_VERSION_KERBEROS4

supports kerberos4 (when using FTP)

CURL_VERSION_SSL

supports SSL (HTTPS/FTPS) (Added in 7.10)

etc...

[9tontruck]

..

[9tontruck]

I checked curl_version_info_data and I figured out data->ssl_version is "null" which means the library I am currently using does not support SSL. What was wrong? Did I build the library in a wrong way? or the zipped library file in the very top of the download page does not basically contain SSL supports in it?