curl-library
RE: POP3 not using same connection for multiple requests when using starttls
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:00:27 +0000
Hiya Daniel,
> > You don't want to distinguish between them. The server and libcurl
> > have automatically upgraded the connection to TLS and as such the
> > application programmer doesn't need to know (or even cares) if the
> > connection has been upgraded. In fact, unless I'm mistaken, there is
> > no way of letting the programmer know that the connection has been
upgraded.
>
> We have to! If connection A upgrades to TLS and connection B comes along
but
> doesn't want TLS, the B one has to make its own connection. It cannot be
> allowed to silently use TLS instead. And vice versa.
Okay - but how does the programmer specify that they want to do this?
Kind Regards
Steve
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Received on 2011-11-12