simpleHTTP raises exception on "https"

Question

simpleHTTP raises exception on "https"

vlatkoB opened this issue 11 years ago · 2 comments

Hello,

In documentation for simpleHTTP it is not mentioned that it raises IO exception if url is "https" (through failHTTPS).
It should be mentioned in docs, or even better, it should catch it and return Left (maybe ErrorMisc).

Best regards,
vlatko

Answer 1 · 2014-12-14T05:02:33.000Z

👍 for this, undocumented exception throwing is bad. (just got bitten by this)

Answer 2 · 2016-06-05T19:08:49.000Z

With pull request #103 the behaviour changes from exception into Left result:

λ> import Network.HTTP
λ> Network.HTTP.simpleHTTP (getRequest "https://haskell.org")
Left (ErrorMisc "user error (https not supported)")