On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Domenico Andreoli wrote:

> i made ./configure --without-ssl. here at home everything seems to work
> correctly.

I did too, on a Redhat 6.2 installation here, and it seems to work.

> if i could decide if curl is ssl or no-ssl only by installing the ssl or
> no-ssl libcurl...

Well, the OpenSSL libs are static by default so curl is either linked with or
without them.

> as far as curl is concerned, does it know something about ssl or
> delegates everything to lib curl?

The source code in the curl part has in fact no clue of *any* protocol and it
passes everything to the lib. So, if you'd use dynamic SSL libraries you
could have the same curl executable and just change libcurl...

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