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Re: TLS upgrade?

From: Michael Wood <esiotrot_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:46:32 +0200

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, David Shaw wrote:
>
>> It's a bit of a chicken and the egg problem.  No client wants to support
>> it until the servers do, and no server wants to support it until the clients
>> do.
>
> I would guess that making libcurl support this wouldn't be too much work.
> I've just personally never seen it used and never faced anyone wanting to
> use it...

IPP can use this (RFC2910) and at least Novell's IPP implementation
(iPrint) uses it.

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot_at_gmail.com>
Received on 2009-03-12