http:request hanging

[Joel Reymont]

It appears to have something to do with SSL and, perhaps, the version  
of OpenSSL in particular.

Does not work on Mac OSX Snow Leopard (x86-64) with OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25  
Mar 2009, works on Ubuntu 9.04 with OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007.

On Aug 7, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Joel Reymont wrote:

> I'm issuing a GET to Amazon EC2 to start an instance, e.g.
>
> URL = "https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=RunInstances&ImageId=amixxxxx&MinCount=1&MaxCount=1&KeyName=gsg-keypair&AWSAccessKeyId=xxxxx&Timestamp=2009-08-07T15%3A27%3A23Z&SignatureVersion=1&Version=2007-08-29&Signature=xxxx 
> ".
> http:request(get, {URL, []}, [{ssl, []}], []).
>
> Pasting the URL above into Firefox returns XML and starts the  
> instance. Issuing the http:request above from Erlang, on the other  
> hand, just hangs.
>
> Any explanation for this? How would I go about debugging it? I'm  
> using OTP R13B01.
>

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