Thank you for your clues. After a careful reading of the Jakab doc and
multiple tries at getting all the right includes and libs, I have gotten
beyond the 'Unsupported protocol' error.

I decided to statically build libcurl with both ssh and ssl libraries - and
that has done the trick.

Now I am having fun learning about the various flavors of certs.

Thanks so much for your help!!

Katie

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Nick Zitzmann <nick_at_chronosnet.com> wrote:

>
> On Feb 27, 2013, at 2:51 PM, Katie Scott <katie_at_singularpoint.com> wrote:
>
> > Why would curl compile and provide https by only linking to libcurl -
> and yet I would have to link to libcurl AND libssl for my program?
>
> Unless you statically built libcurl, libcurl is linked against libssh2 if
> you turned on SSH support, and whichever SSL library you built it against
> if you turned on SSL/TLS support. The two protocols were independently
> invented around the same time (1994-95) and are not compatible with one
> another. In particular, SSH is used mainly for file transfers and remote
> shell, while SSL/TLS is used to secure protocols that already existed at
> the time.
>
> If you statically built libcurl, then you'll have to link your built
> product to libssh2 and the TLS/SSL library in addition to libcurl. That's
> how static libraries work.
>
> Nick Zitzmann
> <http://www.chronosnet.com/>
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