Michael Wood wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Emily Mark <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just wondered if there are any alternatives to OpenSSL for cURL? Has >> anyone developed something different? > > Yes, see http://curl.haxx.se/docs/features.html > > and http://curl.haxx.se/docs/install.html says: > > To build with GnuTLS support instead of OpenSSL for SSL/TLS, note that > you need to use both --without-ssl and --with-gnutls. > > To build with yassl support instead of OpenSSL or GnuTLS, you must build > yassl with its OpenSSL emulation enabled and point to that directory root > with configure --with-ssl. > > To build with NSS support instead of OpenSSL for SSL/TLS, note that > you need to use both --without-ssl and --with-nss.
I take it from the above excerpt that naming of ssl parameters in libcurl's build script is misleading at least. It looks like --with-ssl refers only to OpenSSL. Shouldn't it then be called -with-openssl instead? This way one wouldn't have to give --without-ssl with other SSL libs. Piotr Dobrogost
