Sorry about that, I brought it up in issue #150[1] and had thought that cabal-install was no longer a limiting factor on forcing SSL connections. I've just added a workaround that disables the redirect for tarballs, so that it should still work with cabal-install, while granting most users the security guarantees of using SSL. I believe this will be a sufficient workaround, but I'd appreciate if you could test and confirm that this fixes the problem for you.

[1] https://github.com/fpco/stackage-server/issues/150

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 2:13 PM, David Turner <dct25-561bs@mythic-beasts.com> wrote:
Hi,

Overnight there seems to have been a change to stackage where it's now issuing redirects from http to https URLs:

~$ cabal update
Downloading the latest package list from stackage-lts-2.22
Warning: http error: Unable to handle redirect, unsupported scheme:
cabal: Failed to download
HTTP code: 301"


My cabal doesn't seem to like https and I think it's a recentish version:

$ cabal --version
cabal-install version 1.22.0.0
using version 1.22.0.0 of the Cabal library

I'm probably using a bit of an old workflow (and I know that LTS-2 is pretty old too) but is there any simple way of getting this working again?

Cheers,