On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 04:01:00PM +0000, Job 317 wrote:
> I have a multithreaded app using libcurl. Occasionally I ge a link that
> redirects to an SSL/https link. This, of course, causes problems because
> the app currently is not built with multi-threaded openssl support which
> is what I'm working to solve.
>
> My question, since the URL(s) don't start off being https:// in most
> cases, host do I effectively use libcurl to properly handle SSL
> redirects without crashing due to the mishandling of SSL in my case?

What's the matter with fixing your app?

> Note: I need to support redirects so I have the following settings for
> this currently:
>
> curl_easy_setopt (curl, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, (long)5);
> curl_easy_setopt (curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
>
> Opinions would be appreciated.

You could also disable automatic redirect handling and do it manually within
the app, disallowing any redirects to SSL-based protocols. Or simply
recompile your libcurl without SSL support.

>>> Dan

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