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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2017-11-23 17:02:48 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2017-11-27 08:50:33 +0100
commitd661b0afb571a68ec11f3dd856aba304c80780ba (patch)
treeb3ba2de4b23e42287671bc1349e85f7e5bbd8791 /docs
parent7f2a1df6f5fc598750b2c6f34465c8d924db28cc (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
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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_global_init.33
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