On Sat, 12 Nov 2011, Steve Holme wrote:

>> 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?

You set the CURLOPT_USE_SSL option (or not).

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