On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:31:09AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> i don't know how sane is my idea of using the plugin concept.

This was also one of the first things I thought of, but curl is portable to
a huge set of platforms, and the approach would only be portable to a
handful of them. So I figured that Daniel wouldn't like it. :-7

I agree that it would be a nice solution - maybe the configure script could
just check if dlopen() is there, and fall back to the current way of
building if it isn't.

> you may define a plugin management API and a set of interfaces that allow
> multiple plugins to do things (GSS auth with whatever kerberos
> implementation, SSL with as many toolkits you like, name resolving
> cache,...).

Or, simpler, dlopen("/usr/lib/libssl.so") directly.

Cheers,

  Richard

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