From 8ca6e21969e5c081a553371b4ab2683f82932968 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Dominguez <danielfromarg@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 16:30:45 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Allow https to follow redirections when requesting latest
 release data from github.

---
 src/main/index.js | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/index.js b/src/main/index.js
index 2591e20f6..276212b59 100644
--- a/src/main/index.js
+++ b/src/main/index.js
@@ -176,11 +176,11 @@ ipcMain.on('version-info-requested', () => {
     },
   };
   let result = '';
-
-  const req = https.get(Object.assign(opts, url.parse(latestReleaseAPIURL)), res => {
+  const onSuccess = res => {
     res.on('data', data => {
       result += data;
     });
+
     res.on('end', () => {
       const tagName = JSON.parse(result).tag_name;
       const [, remoteVersion] = tagName.match(/^v([\d.]+(?:-?rc\d+)?)$/);
@@ -199,14 +199,27 @@ ipcMain.on('version-info-requested', () => {
         }
       }
     });
-  });
+  };
 
-  req.on('error', err => {
-    console.log('Failed to get current version from GitHub. Error:', err);
-    if (rendererWindow) {
-      rendererWindow.webContents.send('version-info-received', null);
-    }
-  });
+  const requestLatestRelease = (apiUrl, alreadyRedirected = false) => {
+    const req = https.get(Object.assign(opts, url.parse(apiUrl)), res => {
+      if (res.statusCode === 301 || res.statusCode === 302) {
+        requestLatestRelease(res.headers.location, true);
+      } else {
+        onSuccess(res);
+      }
+    });
+
+    if (alreadyRedirected) return;
+    req.on('error', err => {
+      console.log('Failed to get current version from GitHub. Error:', err);
+      if (rendererWindow) {
+        rendererWindow.webContents.send('version-info-received', null);
+      }
+    });
+  };
+
+  requestLatestRelease(latestReleaseAPIURL);
 });
 
 ipcMain.on('get-auth-token', event => {
-- 
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