Slow HTTP.jl requests when SSL is enabled

[jd-foster]

FWIW, the maintainer of HTTP.jl is aware of MbedTLS limitations:

TLS Support Questions

Currently HTTP.jl hard-codes a dependency on MbedTLS.jl for TLS support; it has served us decently over the years, but there have always been a lingering set of errors that crop up that are very difficult to debug; either because mbedtls library is a “black box” or the bindings around it (in MbedTLS.jl) are also tricky to get right. What do people generally think around TLS in Julia going forward? It doesn’t seem like there’s an appetite to do something native (though go and rust both have impl…