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<br></div><div>-Satvik<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 8:58 PM, C K Kashyap <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ckkashyap@gmail.com" target="_blank">ckkashyap@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I am trying to use Haskell to download email/attachments from gmail. For which I am exploring Network.TLS. I got this sample from the net that connects to gmail smtp and works just fine -</div>

<div><a href="http://hpaste.org/82890" target="_blank">http://hpaste.org/82890</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>However, when I modify it a bit to try to connect to imap, it simply does not work. To debug, I tried to connect to a webserver, even that seems to not work. I modified the function as follows.</div>

<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>emailGmail2 = do</div><div>        let host = &quot;localhost&quot;</div><div>        let port = 443</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>let params = defaultParamsClient{pCiphers = ciphers}</div>

<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>g &lt;- RNG.makeSystem</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>h &lt;- connectTo host (PortNumber (fromIntegral port))</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>hSetBuffering h LineBuffering</div>

<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>cWrite h &quot;GET / HTTP/1.0&quot;</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>cWrite h &quot;&quot;</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>cWaitFor h &quot;ABCD&quot;</div>

<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>con &lt;- contextNewOnHandle h params g</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>handshake con</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>bye con</div>

<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And I get a &quot;BAD request&quot; response from the server - Can some please give me a sample code that uses Network.TLS to connect to a <a href="http://imap.google.com" target="_blank">imap.google.com</a> (or even a webserver for that matter)?</div>

<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Kashyap</div></div></div>
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