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Re: --disable-http (was Re: 7.10.7-pre4)

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:58:25 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Dan Fandrich wrote:

> Just for fun :) I tried configuring curl with --disable-http. It ended up
> failing to build due to link errors. If the implicit assumptions about
> having HTTP are too deep to be easily fixed (most curl users are going to
> want HTTP support), then the --disable-http option ought to be removed.

Yes, configure --disable-http is a known bug as mentioned in docs/KNOWN_BUGS.
It has never worked. I'm not really capable of maintaining all the
disable-functionality myself, as I always try to enable as much as possible in
the library to be able to verify as much functionality as possible.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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Received on 2003-08-13