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Re: OpenSSl & -bugs Command

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:45:10 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 jennyvus_at_charter.net wrote:

[...]

> Anyway, after some debugging I decided to try the OpenSSL command (-bugs).
> This applies workaround for known bugs in the code.
>
> Does CURL have a complimentary command to send to OpenSSL to translate in
> order to use this (-bugs) feature?

I haven't investigated what "-bugs" do, but libcurl uses (since 7.10.6) the
OpenSSL function SSL_CTX_set_options() with the SSL_OP_ALL argument to
"work-around lots of bugs and flaws in various SSL-implementations".

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Received on 2004-07-22