On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, amit paliwal wrote:
>
> I have seen that curl_easy_getinfo() provides several options to fetch
>> relevant information. I was just wondering why it does not provide any
>> option to fetch the SSL context, i.e. SSL pointer, from SSL_ctx.
>>
>> Is there any particular reason for it? this might be a good feature for
>> implementing proprietary stuffs.
>>
>
> Sure, the primary reason is probably:
>
> Those are all OpenSSL-specific pointers and libcurl can use any out of
> seven different SSL libraries.
>
> And also, for those who use libcurl built with OpenSSL there is already the
> CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION curl_easy_setopt option which offers something
> similar to what you ask for.
>
> Reply: Thanks, it will help.

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