Using HTTPS

[CenTdemeern1]

I'd like to perform an HTTPS request to an API somewhere from my code.
I've already tried using HTTP over TCP manually to avoid diving into SSL/TLS and external crates/libraries, but the API unfortunately requires HTTPS.

I've considered & tried the following:

• I've tried reqwest (doesn't work because of the lack of openssl)
• I've tried curl-rust (can't seem to compile, but this could maybe work if it were possible to make it use the 3ds-curl dkp portlib?)
• I've considered using bindgen with the 3ds-curl portlib, but I don't think I'm competent enough to make that link & build correctly

(Note that I've already tried the different backend crate features for the crates I've mentioned)

Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions? Help would be appreciated

[FenrirWolf]

I'm doing some investigation into getting curl-rust to link to the 3ds curl portlib. So far the two blockers I've encountered are 1) curl-rust always tries to link to OpenSSL on unix-like platforms (which the 3ds is considered as due to it having a number of unix-like compatibility shims) and 2) curl-rust depends on the socket2 crate, which currently fails to compile for the 3ds due to various libc errors. The first problem is easy enough to solve with the right conditional compilation flags, but the second one is more involved. I'll see if I can fix everything locally and then submit PRs to the upstream repositories if I'm successful

[CenTdemeern1]

Do you have the 3ds-zlib package installed from dkp-pacman? I'm not sure if that will solve your issue but that's the first thing I would check for.

I'll double check in a bit, but I remember checking my portlibs folder specifically for this reason and zlib being present.

[adryzz]

not sure right now, but I'll check it out. my 3DS' SD card died and i still haven't replaced it, so i haven't been active here for that reason, but I'll look into it later today.

[CenTdemeern1]

Do you have the 3ds-zlib package installed from dkp-pacman? I'm not sure if that will solve your issue but that's the first thing I would check for.

I'll double check in a bit, but I remember checking my portlibs folder specifically for this reason and zlib being present.

Yep, I do have it

% dkp-pacman -Q | grep zlib
3ds-zlib 1.3-1

[FenrirWolf]

And did you set up the .cargo/config.toml too? That file overrides the build script for curl-rust and should take care of linking libcurl and libz for you.

[CenTdemeern1]

And did you set up the .cargo/config.toml too? That file overrides the build script for curl-rust and should take care of linking libcurl and libz for you.

Yes, I did

[adryzz]

reqwest should work with rustls... not sure what's the blocker there since the sockaddr_in issue is resolved now, i'll check back when i got some time, but yeah

[CenTdemeern1]

I remember trying rustls and it not being able to compile but I don't remember looking into if I can get it to work with the mbedtls portlib

[adryzz]

alright, the issue isn't in rustls, but in mio, i have a year old patch to make mio work on the 3ds, but i have to update it, and it'll take a while before it gets merged upstream, as the 3DS is a complex target