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| author | Jay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com> | 2015-06-20 18:45:25 -0400 |
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| committer | Jay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com> | 2015-06-20 18:45:25 -0400 |
| commit | 6842afbf4498198766bf4ff6300a5f267fcbd361 (patch) | |
| tree | f653edb67a38ace304f8ed81ef0962a13affe3df /projects/README | |
| parent | ea1eec8ea88ade9137cdb6db422d00b273daef03 (diff) | |
INSTALL: Advise use of non-native SSL for Windows <= XP
Advise that WinSSL in versions <= XP will not be able to connect to
servers that no longer support the legacy handshakes and algorithms used
by those versions, and to use an alternate backend like OpenSSL instead.
Bug: https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/253
Reported-by: zenden2k <zenden2k@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'projects/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | projects/README | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/projects/README b/projects/README index b45d78397..27095380a 100644 --- a/projects/README +++ b/projects/README @@ -110,6 +110,15 @@ Notes stored in the git repositoty) will need to be modified rather than the generated project files that Visual Studio uses. +Legacy Windows and SSL +====================== +Some of the project configurations use as an SSL backend WinSSL (Windows SSPI, +more specifically Schannel), the native SSL library that comes with the Windows +OS. WinSSL in Windows <= XP is not able to connect to servers that no longer +support the legacy handshakes and algorithms used by those versions. If you +will be using curl in one of those earlier versions of Windows you should +choose another SSL backend like OpenSSL. + TODO ==== |