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Re: [Bug-wget] let's fix the openssl backend once and for all
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Giuseppe Scrivano |
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Re: [Bug-wget] let's fix the openssl backend once and for all |
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Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:46:01 +0100 |
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Daniel Stenberg <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
>
>> and this remembers us that maintaining two different backends is not
>> a good idea. I am for just moving to GNU TLS and forget about
>> OpenSSL. It is a bit drastic but I think it is a better move for the
>> long term. And we get rid of the copyright exception as well...
>
> Allow me to throw a (much more) crazy idea at you:
>
> Consider sharing the TLS backend setup that libcurl has[1]. It
> currently supports 9 (or 11, depending on how you count
> libressl/boringssl) TLS libraries using a unified internal function
> set... It would for example allow more small foot-print libs to be
> used, and the native TLS libs on platforms like mac and windows.
>
> [1] = there would be some amount of work involved to make it happen,
> from both parties, but I think there would be mutual benefit. The code
> is somewhat separated in the libcurl code base already, but would need
> some further polish to get properly useful.
that could be an interesting approach. Is this library distributed
under a MIT/X derivate license too?
Do you think it would be possible to make a completely new library out
of it? Maybe wget won't be the only user to take advantage of such
library.
Thanks,
Giuseppe
- Re: [Bug-wget] let's fix the openssl backend once and for all, (continued)
- Re: [Bug-wget] let's fix the openssl backend once and for all (was: Patch Test-proxied-https-auth.px), Mike Frysinger, 2014/10/31
- Re: [Bug-wget] let's fix the openssl backend once and for all, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2014/10/31
- Re: [Bug-wget] let's fix the openssl backend once and for all, Mike Frysinger, 2014/10/31
- Re: [Bug-wget] let's fix the openssl backend once and for all, Ray Satiro, 2014/10/31
- Re: [Bug-wget] let's fix the openssl backend once and for all, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2014/10/31
- Re: [Bug-wget] let's fix the openssl backend once and for all (was: Patch Test-proxied-https-auth.px), Tim Ruehsen, 2014/10/31
- Re: [Bug-wget] let's fix the openssl backend once and for all, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2014/10/31
- Re: [Bug-wget] let's fix the openssl backend once and for all (was: Patch Test-proxied-https-auth.px), Daniel Stenberg, 2014/10/31
- Re: [Bug-wget] let's fix the openssl backend once and for all,
Giuseppe Scrivano <=
- Re: [Bug-wget] let's fix the openssl backend once and for all, Daniel Stenberg, 2014/10/31
- Re: [Bug-wget] let's fix the openssl backend once and for all, Daniel Stenberg, 2014/10/31
- Re: [Bug-wget] let's fix the openssl backend once and for all (was: Patch Test-proxied-https-auth.px), Darshit Shah, 2014/10/31
- Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Patch Test-proxied-https-auth.px, Tim Ruehsen, 2014/10/30
- Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Patch Test-proxied-https-auth.px, Daniel Stenberg, 2014/10/30
- Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Patch Test-proxied-https-auth.px, Tim Ruehsen, 2014/10/30
- Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Patch Test-proxied-https-auth.px, Daniel Stenberg, 2014/10/31
- Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Patch Test-proxied-https-auth.px, Tim Ruehsen, 2014/10/31
Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Patch Test-proxied-https-auth.px, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2014/10/31