cURL error 56: SSLRead() — Reinstallation

I was working on a Vue JS app that contained a vue2-dropzone component, which providers a beautiful and configurable file-picker component.

The Problem

Whenever I selected a file, it would upload it to the url I provided, but the server would return an HTTP 500 status code and the message would be:

cURL error 56: SSLRead() return error -9806 (see http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html)

Cryptic huh?

The link provided gives a list of all possible errors that curl can return, and.

Oh, by the way, [CURL](http://curl.haxx.se) is the default program used to make HTTP requests on unix systems.

For a program that makes HTTP requests, you’d think its website would have better UI, eh? 🤔

The Solution

I finally stumbled upon this, and the accepted answer was to restart my system.

So I did, and went for lunch!

The Real Solution

Didn’t work!

Same issue!

So I picked the second answer which was to force install curl with brew.

brew install --force --with-openssl curl

In hindsight, I don’t think the force-install option was necessary. But who has time to try it again? 😂

Because curl was already installed by the OS, I had to make sure the brew installation path was picked when I executed curl, so:

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/curl/bin/curl:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

To verify, executing which curl should return

/usr/local/opt/curl/bin/curl

When I tested the component again, it worked. Now, we can go on to be great!

Happy Coding!