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Re: how small can i make the curl executable to support ftps://?

From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:56:57 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Dan Fandrich wrote:

> I just built a x86 curl executable supporting ftp only in 123 KiB.
> An OpenSSL enabled version is 850 KiB, so it's likely that the
> majority of your bloated executable is also a result of OpenSSL.

i'm convinced of that as well.

> Your best bests are probably to compile yourself a custom version of
> the OpenSSL libraries with only the features you require, or try
> using GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL.

are you suggesting that TLS libs would be considerably smaller? i'll
have to try that. i still don't know the relationship between SSL and
TLS in terms of dependencies so it's time to do more reading, i guess.

rday
Received on 2005-08-12