SKP 2017 Launching external .exe making https calls

[DanRathbun]

@georges_reif

So i suppose Sketchup 2017 is “blocking” something.

One of the SketchUp team members talks about OpenSSL issues with current versions of SketchUp and advises using a different course:

Gist/snippet for Ruby OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE alternative?

I’ve found HTTPS (The S being OpenSSL) in Ruby to be very troublesome. One thing is the certificate issues they have had. Another is a bad performance problem with OpenSSL under Windows. Under Windows OpenSSL use some extremely slow debug Win32 API functions. They added a time out to work around this - but for some reason there are different code paths for different compilers. And the one used to compile the libs we use in SketchUp didn’t have the time out in the inner most loop - which meant th…