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Re: more on GnuTLS vs OpenSSL vs ...

From: Domenico Andreoli <cavok_at_libero.it>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:19:42 +0200

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:21:13PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:31:09AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > i don't know how sane is my idea of using the plugin concept.
>
> This was also one of the first things I thought of, but curl is portable to
> a huge set of platforms, and the approach would only be portable to a
> handful of them. So I figured that Daniel wouldn't like it. :-7
>
> I agree that it would be a nice solution - maybe the configure script could
> just check if dlopen() is there, and fall back to the current way of
> building if it isn't.

of course one should be able to build plugins directly into libcurl
ala php4 or apache.

dom

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Received on 2005-08-25