http requests in help window blocked as insecure

Thu, Jul 6, 2017 2:41 PM #

fyi, clicking on an http:// link in a help window (say a manual pdf) yields a deprecation warning now, so too does cmd+

starting httpd help server ... done
2017-07-06 22:27:11.219 R[33716:3185341] -deltaZ is deprecated for NSEventTypeMagnify.  Please use -magnification.
2017-07-06 22:30:46.726 R[33716:3190570] App Transport Security has blocked a cleartext HTTP (http://) resource load since it is insecure. Temporary exceptions can be configured via your app's Info.plist file.


PS: I am getting the freezeing behavior others have mentioned if dumping something big into the console, like a dataframe

tim

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Simon Urbanek

Fri, Jul 7, 2017 4:22 AM #

Yes, for security reasons Apple doesn't allow http anymore - that's a system-wide setting. We use an exception for R help itself, but anything other than our help is not allowed and has to use SSL.

As noted this seems to be regression in macOS Sierra and Xcode 8.3, unfortunately. AFAICS it is an issue in the system/compiler and not in the GUI itself. I'll try to see if there is a a work-around we could use.

Thanks,
Simon