The "SSL" feature stands for "SSL" not "OpenSSL". GnuTLS provides SSL support to curl as well, so curl-config --feature is working as expected. curl-config doesn't provide a way to determine which SSL library is configured, although you can often infer it from --static-libs. But, it's dangerous to assume a specific SSL library at compile-time, since when using dynamic libraries an application could end up running with a different libcurl than the one against which it was compiled. Better to check it at run-time with CURLINFO_TLS_SESSION.

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** [bugs:#1384] curl-config --feature reports SSL support, even if not supported**
**Status:** open
**Created:** Wed Jun 25, 2014 02:05 PM UTC by Daren Thomas
**Last Updated:** Wed Jun 25, 2014 02:05 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
The 'curl-config --feature' command reports support for SSL even if built without SSL support.
If I build libcurl with the following settings:
./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ --with-gssapi --enable-debug --disable-curldebug --with-gnutls --without-ssl
Calling curl_version() from a C program reports:
libcurl/7.27.0 GnuTLS/2.12.14 zlib/1.2.7 libidn/1.25 librtmp/2.3
But 'curl-config --feature' reports:
$ curl-config --feature | grep SSL
SSL
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If I build libcurl with the following settings:
./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ --with-gssapi --enable-debug --disable-curldebug
Calling curl_version() from a C program reports:
libcurl/7.27.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1c zlib/1.2.7 libidn/1.25 librtmp/2.3
And 'curl-config --feature' reports:
$ curl-config --feature | grep SSL
SSL
Based on this observation, I can't use 'curl-config --feature' to determine whether or not libcurl supports OpenSSL.  Is there an alternate method to test for support?
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