Re: [Samtools-help] kentfile support https://

[Daofeng Li <li...@gm...>]

H
ello John,

Thank you very much for your response.
Understand that less dependency is good for compiling at
different environments.
I tried to search some related webpages by Google about how
to incorporate libcurl to samtools, seems there's no such content. I was
not able to understand the API documentation listed in libcurl's website.

Do you happen to have some guide to how to build samtools with libcurl? I
just need to access files stored at Dropbox, which own https:// links.

Thanks again.

Best,

Daofeng


On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 4:24 AM, John Marshall <jm...@sa...> wrote:

> On 5 Jul 2013, at 19:38, Daofeng Li wrote:
> > Is it possible that to make kentfile support https:// link?
>
> knetfile contains its own very simple implementations of FTP and HTTP
> clients.  It won't ever contain its own SSL implementation and at the
> moment there is no code in it to use e.g. openssl; so at the moment https:
> URLs are not supported.
>
> We've always been reluctant to acquire dependencies on external libraries
> such as libcurl or openssl, as this makes it harder for people to build
> samtools in all their various environments.  Probably the sensible way to
> support https: URLs would be to have the option at build-time to use
> libcurl instead of knetfile.c/.h, so you could choose to build it with
> extra dependencies to get this functionality.  We've talked about doing
> this, but it's not high on our priority list at the moment.
>
>     John
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