On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 03:12:49PM -0800, Roy Fielding wrote: > > Added a new parameter --enable-ssl. SSL is enabled by default, so if you > > don't have the libs you either have to install them or pass --disable-ssl. > > -1. Export and import restrictions in some countries require that it be > disabled by default.
It was already enabled by default (or another way to look at it was that it wouldn't compile w/o it). I went back and forth on this, so it's no big deal to switch the default to disabled. -aaron