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RE: OpenSSl & -bugs Command
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:40:18 -0400
We will try this. I will let you all know if it works! 
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Stenberg [mailto:daniel-curl_at_haxx.se] 
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 5:45 PM
To: curl tool talk
Cc: ventullo_jennifer_at_emc.com
Subject: Re: OpenSSl & -bugs Command
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 jennyvus_at_charter.net wrote:
[...]
> Anyway, after some debugging I decided to try the OpenSSL command 
> (-bugs).
> This applies workaround for known bugs in the code.
>
> Does CURL have a complimentary command to send to OpenSSL to translate 
> in
> order to use this (-bugs) feature?
I haven't investigated what "-bugs" do, but libcurl uses (since 7.10.6) the 
OpenSSL function SSL_CTX_set_options() with the SSL_OP_ALL argument to 
"work-around lots of bugs and flaws in various SSL-implementations".
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Received on 2004-07-23