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RE: OpenSSl & -bugs Command

From: ventullo, jennifer <ventullo_jennifer_at_emc.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:40:18 -0400

We will try this. I will let you all know if it works!

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Stenberg [mailto:daniel-curl_at_haxx.se]
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 5:45 PM
To: curl tool talk
Cc: ventullo_jennifer_at_emc.com
Subject: Re: OpenSSl & -bugs Command

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 2004-07-23