# PkgDev.submit: curl error
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkgdev-submit-curl-error/1386
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [January 10, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkgdev-submit-curl-error/1386 "2017-01-10T12:32:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@mzaffalon](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mzaffalon)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkgdev-submit-curl-error/1386/1 "2017-01-10T12:32:06Z")
I am trying to use `PkgDev.submit` to submit a PR from Windows 7 (following the instructions at [http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/packages.html#Making-changes-to-an-existing-package-1](http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/packages.html#Making-changes-to-an-existing-package-1)) and I get the following error:
```julia
julia> PkgDev.submit("SymPy")
INFO: Forking JuliaPy/SymPy.jl to mzaffalon
INFO: Creating a personal access token for Julia Package Manager on GitHub.
You will be asked to provide credentials to your GitHub account.
Enter host password for user 'mzaffalon':
curl: (35) schannel: failed to retrieve ALPN result
ERROR: BoundsError: attempt to access 1-element Array{SubString{String},1} at index [2]
in curl(::String, ::Cmd) at C:\Users\michele.zaffalon\.julia\v0.5\PkgDev\src\github.jl:31
in curl(::String, ::Dict{Any,Any}, ::Cmd) at C:\Users\michele.zaffalon\.julia\v0.5\PkgDev\src\github.jl:44
in token(::String) at C:\Users\michele.zaffalon\.julia\v0.5\PkgDev\src\github.jl:64
in req(::String, ::Void, ::Cmd) at C:\Users\michele.zaffalon\.julia\v0.5\PkgDev\src\github.jl:92
in fork(::SubString{String}, ::SubString{String}) at C:\Users\michele.zaffalon\.julia\v0.5\PkgDev\src\github.jl:122
in (::PkgDev.Entry.##2#3)(::Base.LibGit2.GitRepo) at C:\Users\michele.zaffalon\.julia\v0.5\PkgDev\src\entry.jl:34
in with(::PkgDev.Entry.##2#3, ::Base.LibGit2.GitRepo) at .\libgit2\types.jl:638
in #pull_request#1(::String, ::String, ::String, ::Function, ::String) at C:\Users\michele.zaffalon\.julia\v0.5\PkgDev\src\entry.jl:15
in (::PkgDev.Entry.#kw##pull_request)(::Array{Any,1}, ::PkgDev.Entry.#pull_request, ::String) at .\:0
in submit(::String, ::String) at C:\Users\michele.zaffalon\.julia\v0.5\PkgDev\src\entry.jl:48
in (::Base.Pkg.Dir.##2#3{Array{Any,1},PkgDev.Entry.#submit,Tuple{String}})() at .\pkg\dir.jl:31
in cd(::Base.Pkg.Dir.##2#3{Array{Any,1},PkgDev.Entry.#submit,Tuple{String}}, ::String) at .\file.jl:48
in #cd#1(::Array{Any,1}, ::Function, ::Function, ::String, ::Vararg{Any,N}) at .\pkg\dir.jl:31
in submit(::String) at C:\Users\michele.zaffalon\.julia\v0.5\PkgDev\src\PkgDev.jl:54
```
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### Author:  [@mzaffalon](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mzaffalon)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2017, 12:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkgdev-submit-curl-error/1386/2 "2017-01-10T12:52:32Z")
This is what I used as a workaround (in the hope others with no git skills like myself may find it useful):
1. I forked the repo (`SymPy.jl`) in GitHub;
2. at the command line, I push the changes of my local branch `zaf\math` to my remote repository: `git push https://github.com/mzaffalon/SymPy.jl zaf/math`
3. I open a PR upstream.