It should never do that. For some apparent reason you have a space (' ')
before 'https' and that probably is causing the problem. If curl was not
built with https support you should get: "libcurl was built with SSL
disabled, https: not supported!"

Also, please CC curl list while sending mail.

Regards
Seshubabu Pasam

Martha Zimet wrote:
> Thanks for your suggestion. The error returned tells me:
>
> "Unsupported protocol: https"
>
> Any further suggestions? curl via the command line works fine
> on the same https URL and my program and curl are compiled with
> the same libraries.
>
> Regards,
>
> /martha
>
>
>
>>There are various places in url.c where this is thrown. This is returned
>>when CURL is not build with appropriate protocol support. I don't
>>beleive this error has anything to do with SSL_VERIFY options. If
>>verification failed, you get different error message. Try setting
>>
>> curl_easy_setopt ( curl, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, error );
>>
>>and see what is returned in error buffer. This can be used to identify
>>where/why it is failing.
>
>
Received on 2004-04-04