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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
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