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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Suggesting users add github to /etc/hosts may be the single most user-unfriendly, UX-unaware idea I've ever seen proposed for kicad, which is a true feat considering up until a couple years ago kicad used to be the very epitome of those adjectives.

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:56:15AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Replacing avhttp with lib curl is fine for the development branch once
> we prove it out but I am reluctant to backport it to the stable release
> for obvious reasons.  I got an email from Dick today.  He believes the
> problem lies with the users router's inability to keep up with the
> parallel DNS look up requests.  This may be that's why it hasn't been a
> problem for developers.  My guess is most of us have routers that are
> fast enough to handle the parallel DNS requests.  He suggested adding
> github to /etc/hosts so the host will cache the DNS look up but that's
> still no guarentee.  As an alternative we could either lower the number
> of work threads in footprint_info.cpp (which also effects non-github
> footprint library loading), disable multiple threads all together, or
> make the number of worker threads configurable.  I'm not sure if the
> github plugin itself is also spawning multiple threads so that may be
> another place to look.  Has anyone tried building kicad with worker
> threads disabled in footprint_info.cpp to confirm if this resolves the
> issue?
> 
> On 12/4/2015 10:10 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> > 2015-12-04 14:15 GMT+01:00 Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>> I understand what you mean, but I am pretty sure avhttp did not test
> >> certificates.
> >> It did using boost::asio:ssl which has the functionality for it.
> >>
> >> in include/avhttp/impl/http_stream.ipp you can even see the
> >> m_check_certificate option which kicad never turned off.
> >>
> >>
> >>> I am worried by the fact most of Kicad users know nothing about
> >>> certificates, and using them is open a door to a lot of bug reports (the
> >>> fp lib table issues could be zilch compared to that).
> >>
> >> We would bundle it with the kicad  for Windows and it should be fine.
> >> Anyone else should have a dependency on their installed kicad package
> >> on libcurl which in term will have a dependency on ca-certificates.
> >>
> >>
> >>> I am thinking the certificate ca-bundle.crt is OK (cURL works fine since
> >>> I updated it), but it is just not found by Kicad (It could be fixed).
> >>
> >> On two of my machines inside MSYS2, curl works just fine in kicad :/
> >>
> >>
> >>> I am thinking the certificate ca-bundle.crt is OK (cURL works fine since I updated it), but it is just not found by Kicad (It could be fixed).
> >>
> >> It can be by setting the paths within kicad. But its more of a MSYS2 issue.
> > 
> > I am not exactly sure why it happens, but this happens on msys2 when
> > you do not upgrade "properly". If you blindly pacman -Syu when it will
> > update the mingw something something dll, which requires you to only
> > update that and close the shell and reopen to continue the update this
> > ca-certificates thing happen where https do not work.  But if you do
> > update-repo and then pacman -Sy   to update it should be good at all
> > times -- apparently.
> > 
> >> Interesting is they compile with
> >> _variant_config+=("--with-ca-bundle=${MINGW_PREFIX}/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt")
> >>
> >> so I have it in
> >> D:\msys64\usr\ssl\certs
> >> and
> >> D:\msys64\mingw64\ssl\certs
> >>
> >> They do add a patch to curl that makes the ca-bundle path relative to
> >> the executable.
> >>
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