HTTP redirection to HTTPS not supported

[marcuskbr]

lightpanda http://www.example.com
produces the error
error(cli): 'http://www.example.com' fetching error (error.TlsInitializationFailed)s

lightpanda does not support a URL with the HTTP protocol and gives a cryptic error message.
I would like to see the following enhancements:

1. provide support for HTTP URLs
2. display a better error message for URLs with an unsupported protocol.

Thanks, Marcus

[krichprollsch]

@marcuskbr Thanks for the issue.

I'm afraid can't reproduce. We should handle http connection correctly.

$ ./lightpanda-x86_64-linux --verbose http://www.example.com
debug(cli): Fetch mode: url http://www.example.com, dump false
debug(browser): start js env
debug(browser): setup global env
debug(browser): starting GET http://www.example.com
info(browser): GET http://www.example.com/ 200
debug(browser): http.Version.HTTP/1.1 200 OK
debug(browser): header content-type: text/html
debug(browser): parse html with charset utf-8
debug(browser): wait: OK

Can you share the cryptic error message?
What OS are you using?

[marcuskbr]

Indeed, my bad, I substituted my test URL by www.example.com when I reported the issue. Indeed http://www.example.com also works on my system.
Here is attempt #2 in explaining the issue:
On Ubuntu 22.04:
./lightpanda-x86_64-linux --verbose http://www.example.com WORKS

./lightpanda-x86_64-linux --verbose http://www.urlfilterdb.com FAILS with
error(cli): 'http://www.urlfilterdb.com' fetching error (error.TlsInitializationFailed)s

./lightpanda-x86_64-linux --verbose https://www.urlfilterdb.com WORKS

Note that http://www.urlfilterdb.com redirects to https://www.urlfilterdb.com

[krichprollsch]

@marcuskbr can you retry the issue?
It seems to be fixed in my test.

$ zig build run -- fetch  http://www.urlfilterdb.com/
debug(cli): Fetch mode: url http://www.urlfilterdb.com/, dump false
debug(browser): start js env
debug(browser): setup global env
debug(polyfill): load polyfill-fetch: undefined
debug(browser): inspector context created
debug: Inspector contextCreated called
debug(browser): starting GET http://www.urlfilterdb.com/
info(http_client): redirecting to: GET https://www.urlfilterdb.com/
info(browser): GET http://www.urlfilterdb.com/ 200
debug(browser): header content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
debug(browser): parse html with charset utf-8
debug(browser): inspector context created
debug: Inspector contextCreated called
debug(browser): wait: OK

[marcuskbr]

yes, it works now. thanks!