Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) Failure when receiving data from the peer

[blakiseskream]

Moved over from SO post here

I am getting an error when performing the below,

httr::GET("https://wd5-services1.myworkday.com/ccx/service/")
#> Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle): Failure when receiving data from the peer

Created on 2019-01-29 by the reprex package (v0.2.0).

However the following below does work and returns the expected response.

RCurl::getURL("https://wd5-services1.myworkday.com/ccx/service/")
#> [1] "500 : Invalid request"

Created on 2019-01-29 by the reprex package (v0.2.0).

In the SO post it looks like someone was able to use httr::GET(). Anyone have any ideas on what might be going on?

My system version info is below,

sessionInfo()
#> R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
#> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
#> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
#> 
#> Matrix products: default
#> 
#> locale:
#> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
#> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
#> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
#> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
#> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    
#> 
#> attached base packages:
#> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
#> 
#> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
#>  [1] compiler_3.5.2  backports_1.1.3 magrittr_1.5    rprojroot_1.3-2
#>  [5] tools_3.5.2     htmltools_0.3.6 yaml_2.2.0      Rcpp_1.0.0     
#>  [9] stringi_1.2.4   rmarkdown_1.10  highr_0.7       knitr_1.21     
#> [13] stringr_1.3.1   xfun_0.3        digest_0.6.18   evaluate_0.12

Created on 2019-02-05 by the reprex package (v0.2.0).

[blakiseskream]

Update I assume this error has something to do with their SSL? RCurl::getURL() now fails with an SSL cipher error but httr::GET() now works. From this I assume that the original curl::curl_fetch_memory() error has something to do with SSL?

See below examples,

httr::GET("https://wd5-services1.myworkday.com/ccx/service/customreport2/")
#> Response [https://wd5-services1.myworkday.com/ccx/service/customreport2/]
#>   Date: 2019-02-07 01:21
#>   Status: 500
#>   Content-Type: <unknown>
#>   Size: 1 B
#> <BINARY BODY>

Created on 2019-02-06 by the reprex package (v0.2.0).

RCurl::getURL("https://wd5-services1.myworkday.com/ccx/service/customreport2/")
#> Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE) : error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure

Created on 2019-02-06 by the reprex package (v0.2.0).

And the session info,

sessionInfo()
#> R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
#> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
#> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
#> 
#> Matrix products: default
#> 
#> locale:
#> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
#> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
#> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
#> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
#> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    
#> 
#> attached base packages:
#> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
#> 
#> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
#>  [1] compiler_3.5.2  backports_1.1.3 magrittr_1.5    rprojroot_1.3-2
#>  [5] tools_3.5.2     htmltools_0.3.6 yaml_2.2.0      Rcpp_1.0.0     
#>  [9] stringi_1.2.4   rmarkdown_1.10  highr_0.7       knitr_1.21     
#> [13] stringr_1.3.1   xfun_0.3        digest_0.6.18   evaluate_0.12

Created on 2019-02-06 by the reprex package (v0.2.0).

[hadley]

This sort of question is a better fit for https://community.rstudio.com. Do you mind asking it over there?