On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Miklos Nemeth wrote:

> > To make it smaller, add #infdef DISABLE_[PROTOCOL] lines at
> > the appropriate places and then add #define
> > DISABLE_[PROTOCOL] lines in lib/setup.h or something.

> I did it but the gain is practically insignificant. I built a 7.9.7 library
> and a statically linked SSL-enabled curl executable for Windows (VC6) and
> Linux (RedHat7) and here are the sizes (in kilobytes):

I think I must've expressed myself unclear.

There is no current ways to disable certain protocols, the way I suggested
that you should make possible. You can disable SSL, yes, and even IPv6, but
you did say you wanted HTTPS operations so SSL will have to stay.

> My conclusion is that disabling protocols may not worth the configuration
> trouble.

Again: add #infdef DISABLE_[PROTOCOL] lines at the appropriate places in the
source code, and I can assure you that you can get much bigger differences.
The biggest part surely comes when/if you disable FTP.

> Now I know that if I really wanted a small footprint HTTP/SSL client
> library I should look somewhere else and definitly not using OpenSSL.

OpenSSL is not a tiny library, no. SSL is however not a protocol that is
easily to implement in a small way.

> Fortunately, my current application does not require a really small
> HTTP/SSL library, therefore libcurl is perfect for me.

Happy users make me happy. ;-)

-- 
    Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/
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