Hi,

When we provide support to build curl with 3rd party libraries, some people
will take that as some (mild?) endorsement of that library. That curl plus
that lib will be a good end result to use.

axTLS is one of those 3rd party libraries but I have come to question it as of
late, and before I act in any way I wanted to bring it up here to see if there
are other or similar opinions on it floating around.

Here are some complaints I can gather on axTLS.

  - home page without HTTPS
  - doesn't support modern TLS features like SNI? [1]
  - lacks support for modern ciphers [5]
  - doesn't allow for outside bug report submissions [2]
  - there's virtually no discussion about it on [3] and [4]

Combined, I think list hints that this a library and project that we should
not recommend to uninformed users.

As a next step we can discuss what we can or should do about it.

[1] = https://github.com/dsheets/axtls/issues/2
[2] = https://sourceforge.net/p/axtls/bugs/
[3] = https://sourceforge.net/p/axtls/discussion/
[4] = https://sourceforge.net/p/axtls/mailman/axtls-general/
[5] = https://github.com/micropython/micropython/issues/3198

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