curl_fetch_memory failed to match connection hostname

[p-schaefer]

I'm having an issue with gnr_resolve for instance:

gnr_resolve("Simuliidae")

Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(x$url$url, handle = x$url$handle) :
schannel: CertGetNameString() failed to match connection hostname (resolver.globalnames.org) against server certificate names

I'm using R 3.6.1 and taxize 0.9.8.9134

[sckott]

thanks for the issue

is it a persistent problem? if you do the request again does it still happen? That error definitely seems like a problem on their end, and probably is temporary

[p-schaefer]

So far yes. I agree it sounds like a problem with GNR, but am wondering if their API may have changed.

[sckott]

It's not happening for me though, so it may be a factor of the network you're on. Do you know if you're behind a proxy or if the place you're at blocks certain ports. If you can get on a VPN I'd try the request on that to see if you get a different result

[jeroen]

This was a bug in curl. If you reinstall curl it should be fixed :)

[p-schaefer]

That didn't fix it unfortunately. I tried reinstalling curl and crul. It also works for me at home, so its likely a problem with the network I'm on at work. What ports need to be open?

sessionInfo()

R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

Matrix products: default

Random number generation:
RNG: Mersenne-Twister
Normal: Inversion
Sample: Rounding

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] taxize_0.9.8.9134

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.2 compiler_3.6.1 plyr_1.8.4 iterators_1.0.12 tools_3.6.1 jsonlite_1.6
[7] nlme_3.1-140 lattice_0.20-38 Matrix_1.2-17 foreach_1.4.7 cli_1.1.0 rstudioapi_0.10
[13] crul_0.8.0 curl_4.0 parallel_3.6.1 mvtnorm_1.0-11 coda_0.19-3 stringr_1.4.0
[19] xml2_1.2.1 triebeard_0.3.0 grid_3.6.1 reshape_0.8.8 httpcode_0.2.0 data.table_1.12.2
[25] R6_2.4.0 survival_2.44-1.1 multcomp_1.4-10 TH.data_1.0-10 reshape2_1.4.3 magrittr_1.5
[31] urltools_1.7.3 codetools_0.2-16 emmeans_1.3.5.1 MASS_7.3-51.4 splines_3.6.1 assertthat_0.2.1
[37] bold_0.9.0 ape_5.3 xtable_1.8-4 sandwich_2.5-1 estimability_1.3 stringi_1.4.3
[43] crayon_1.3.4 zoo_1.8-6

[jeroen]

Hmmm you are not using httr, right?

[p-schaefer]

No, cf sessionInfo() above.

[jeroen]

Ah I see the problem now, crul has the same bug as httr. @sckott you need to remove the default cainfo option in crul as done here: r-lib/httr#603

[sckott]

@p-schaefer install dev crul remotes::install_github("ropensci/crul") and reload and try again - should be pushing crul to CRAN today

[p-schaefer]

Works now. Thanks!