I am trying to add a repository to my OpenSUSE Leap 42.3 (running on WSL) with the following command.
sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:php/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/devel:languages:php.repo
I get the following error.
Download (curl) error for
'https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:php/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/devel:languages:php.repo':
Error code: Bad URL Error message: Protocol http not supported or
disabled in libcurl
I find confusing the fact the error message is talking about http when I am using https as protocol, and still more confusing that the output of curl --version
suggests https is a supported protocol.
curl 7.37.0 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.37.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2j zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.28 libssh2/1.4.3
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz TLS-SRP
With zypper info libssl43
, I get the following output.
Information for package libssl43:
---------------------------------
Repository : oss
Name : libssl43
Version : 2.5.3-6.1
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 360.0 KiB
Installed : Yes
Status : up-to-date
Source package : libressl-2.5.3-6.1.src
Summary : An SSL/TLS protocol implementation
Description :
LibreSSL is an open-source implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols. It derives from
OpenSSL and intends to provide a more secure implementation.
The output of zypper info libcrypto41
is the following. (libcrypto41 is a dependency of libssl43.)
Information for package libcrypto41:
------------------------------------
Repository : oss
Name : libcrypto41
Version : 2.5.3-6.1
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 2.0 MiB
Installed : Yes (automatically)
Status : up-to-date
Source package : libressl-2.5.3-6.1.src
Summary : An SSL/TLS protocol implementation
Description :
The "crypto" library implements a wide range of cryptographic
algorithms used in various Internet standards. The services provided
by this library are used by the LibreSSL implementations of SSL, TLS
and S/MIME, and they have also been used to implement SSH, OpenPGP,
and other cryptographic standards.
How can I use https URLs? I could instead use http, but I would prefer not going through that path.
Best Answer
I found Thread: zypper https urls: Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl, which contains a link to Thread: Cached files in /home/~/.cache/kioexec/krun/####_# ? How to avoid?
Following what said in those posts, I tried
curl https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:php/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/devel:languages:php.repo
, which outputs the following.So,
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:php/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/devel:languages:php.repo
is redirected tohttp://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:/php/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/devel:languages:php.repo
and, since the redirect is from https:// to http://, it is not followed by Zypper.In short, the server is not yet working using https:// URLs, and the temporary work-around is to use http:// URLs. Nothing is wrong in my OpenSuse 42.3 installation.