[Lazarus] using TFPHTTPClient

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019, AFOR via lazarus wrote:

> Hi Folks.
>
> Since last week, I experience some trouble using TFPHTTPClient component 
> on Windows 10. Until last Tuesday, an application built with Lazarus 
> 1.8.4 was running perfectly well. Since then access  to any URL is 
> denied. I have upgraded Lazarus to 2.0 but this changes nothing. The 
> main task of the program is to access URL's using GET procedure and 
> store results into a Firebird database for future use. When I post the 
> request directly onto the internet navigator, I get get the answers 
> correctly. I wonder what suddenly happened ? Trouble with SSL (requests 
> are https requests) ? I can't trace the operations with Lazarus debugger 
> as some where another thread is probably launched and sockets play in 
> the middle.
>
> Do you have any ideas on which direction to go ?

Clearly something changed last tuesday.
Did you change anything on your windows machine ?
Did you change your FPC installation ?
Could it be that the SSL libs were changed/upgraded ?

Michael.