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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2018-05-31 17:41:42 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2018-05-31 17:41:42 +0200
commit8a6a01c98858551ecf9601e1bda0f097f79f1c0b (patch)
tree7437890f00c582153b2092133f2e692b2d8905ef /docs/KNOWN_BUGS
parent9c33813d835dde214c1a9449f789dd72ab3d9dc3 (diff)
KNOWN_BUGS: CURL_GLOBAL_SSL
Closes #2276
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@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written!
2.3 GnuTLS backend skips really long certificate fields
2.4 DarwinSSL won't import PKCS#12 client certificates without a password
2.5 Client cert handling with Issuer DN differs between backends
+ 2.6 CURL_GLOBAL_SSL
3. Email protocols
3.1 IMAP SEARCH ALL truncated response
@@ -238,6 +239,35 @@ problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written!
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1411
+2.6 CURL_GLOBAL_SSL
+
+ Since libcurl 7.57.0, the flag CURL_GLOBAL_SSL is a no-op. The change was
+ merged in https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/d661b0afb571a
+
+ It was removed since it was
+
+ A) never clear for applications on how to deal with init in the light of
+ different SSL backends (the option was added back in the days when life
+ was simpler)
+
+ B) multissl introduced dynamic switching between SSL backends which
+ emphasized (A) even more
+
+ C) libcurl uses some TLS backend functionality even for non-TLS functions (to
+ get "good" random) so applications trying to avoid the init for
+ performance reasons would do wrong anyway
+
+ D) never very carefully documented so all this mostly just happened to work
+ for some users
+
+ However, in spite of the problems with the feature, there were some users who
+ apparently depended on this feature and who now claim libcurl is broken for
+ them. The fix for this situation is not obvious as a downright revert of the
+ patch is totally ruled out due to those reasons above.
+
+ https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2276
+
+
3. Email protocols
3.1 IMAP SEARCH ALL truncated response