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Re: Calling sslctxfun when shutting down an SSL connection

From: Peter Sylvester <Peter.Sylvester_at_edelweb.fr>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:53:09 +0100

Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Shmulik Regev wrote:
>
>> The CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION option enables the daring ones to
>> control openssl at a fine-grained level during the setup process.
>> What is missing though is the notification when the SSL_CTX object is
>> about to be freed, to enable related (though application specific)
>> resource deallocation. My question is, whether you see this as a
>> relevant issue and will such a change (a pretty straight forward one
>> actually) can find its way into the next curl version. If the answer
>> is yes, I'll gladly contribute it.
>
> Yes, I can see how this makes sense and would fit into the existing
> setup.
>
What about just doing the necssary things just before or after calling
curl_easy_cleanup,
unless I'm wrong this is the only function that a few levels down calls
SSL_CTX_free,
thus it is under full control of the application.

Received on 2007-02-14