On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Gisle Vanem wrote:

> "curl --engine unknown" cause an exit?

Probably.

> There are probably a lot more options that could fail, so how should this be
> handeled in general?

As is being discussed, it might be harder than it first appears.

> BTW. it would be nice if "--engine ?" could list the available engines.

It would, but that would require an API to libcurl that would need to query
OpenSSL for the info, and I don't even know if it can provide that info.

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