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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2017-11-23 17:02:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2017-11-27 08:50:33 +0100 |
| commit | d661b0afb571a68ec11f3dd856aba304c80780ba (patch) | |
| tree | b3ba2de4b23e42287671bc1349e85f7e5bbd8791 /docs/libcurl | |
| parent | 7f2a1df6f5fc598750b2c6f34465c8d924db28cc (diff) | |
global_init: ignore CURL_GLOBAL_SSL's absense
This bit is no longer used. It is not clear what it meant for users to
"init the TLS" in a world with different TLS backends and since the
introduction of multissl, libcurl didn't properly work if inited without
this bit set.
Not a single user responded to the call for users of it:
https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2017-11/0072.html
Reported-by: Evgeny Grin
Assisted-by: Jay Satiro
Fixes #2089
Fixes #2083
Closes #2107
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_global_init.3 | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_global_init.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_global_init.3 index c911bad0a..df558f313 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_global_init.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_global_init.3 @@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ Initialize everything possible. This sets all known bits except \fBCURL_GLOBAL_ACK_EINTR\fP. .IP CURL_GLOBAL_SSL +(This flag's presence or absense serves no meaning since 7.57.0. The +description below is for older libcurl versions.) + Initialize SSL. The implication here is that if this bit is not set, the initialization of the |