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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Updated: March 7, 2011 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html) +Updated: March 8, 2011 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html) _ _ ____ _ ___| | | | _ \| | / __| | | | |_) | | @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ FAQ 3.18 Can I use curl to send a POST/PUT and not wait for a response? 3.19 How do I get HTTP from a host using a specific IP address? 3.20 How to SFTP from my user's home directory? + 3.21 Protocol xxx not supported or disabled in libcurl 4. Running Problems 4.1 Problems connecting to SSL servers. @@ -471,9 +472,13 @@ FAQ 3.1 curl: (1) SSL is disabled, https: not supported If you get this output when trying to get anything from a https:// server, - it means that the configure script couldn't find all libs and include files - it requires for SSL to work. If the configure script fails to find them, - curl is simply built without SSL support. + it means that the instance of curl/libcurl that you're using was built + without support for this protocol. + + This could've happened if the configure script that was run at build time + couldn't find all libs and include files curl requires for SSL to work. If + the configure script fails to find them, curl is simply built without SSL + support. To get the https:// support into a curl that was previously built but that reports that https:// is not supported, you should dig through the document @@ -731,6 +736,20 @@ FAQ curl -O -u user:password scp://example.com/~/file.txt + 3.21 Protocol xxx not supported or disabled in libcurl + + When passing on a URL to curl to use, it may respond that the particular + protocol is not supported or disabled. The particular way this error message + is phrased is because curl doesn't make a distinction internally of whether + a particular protocol is not supported (ie never got any code added that + knows how to speak that protocol) or if it was explicitly disabled. curl can + be built to only support a given set of protocols, and the rest would then + be disabled or not supported. + + Note that this error will also occur if you pass a wrongly spelled protocol + part as in "htpt://example.com" or as in the less evident case if you prefix + the protocol part with a space as in " http://example.com/". + 4. Running Problems |