On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, David Byron wrote:

>> curl -k https://www.openssl.org/
>
> This works fine for me with an MSVC6 build, as do all of those wacky files I
> was downloading earlier this week with SSL and -k. If anyone has an ftps
> server, or some other URL to try, let me know.

It might be a problem specific to the particular build/compiler with which the
curl executable is built! :-/

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