https://traviscj.com/blog/tags/clojure/ Recent content in Clojure on traviscj/blog Hugo en-us Wed, 01 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://traviscj.com/blog/post/2017-02-01-basic_http_requests_and_server_handlers_in_clojure/ Wed, 01 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://traviscj.com/blog/post/2017-02-01-basic_http_requests_and_server_handlers_in_clojure/ <p>I&rsquo;ve been playing around a tiny bit with <a href="https://clojure.org/">clojure</a>, and wanted to document the process of doing something pretty basic: make a project that can request my website over HTTPs.</p> <p>The first step is pretty easy:</p> <pre><code>brew install leiningen lein new random-experimentation cd random-experimentation </code></pre> <p>and add <code>[clj-http &quot;3.4.1&quot;]</code> to <code>project.clj</code>.</p> <p>The HTTPS part is a bit trickier. The JDK doesn&rsquo;t include the <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/">Letsencrypt</a> certificates. But I found a simple script <a href="https://gist.github.com/Firefishy/109b0f1a90156f6c933a50fe40aa777e">install-letsencrypt-in-jdk.sh</a> that can set it up.</p>