On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, amit paliwal wrote:

> I have seen that curl_easy_getinfo() provides several options to fetch
> relevant information. I was just wondering why it does not provide any
> option to fetch the SSL context, i.e. SSL pointer, from SSL_ctx.
>
> Is there any particular reason for it? this might be a good feature for
> implementing proprietary stuffs.

Sure, the primary reason is probably:

  Those are all OpenSSL-specific pointers and libcurl can use any out of
  seven different SSL libraries.

And also, for those who use libcurl built with OpenSSL there is already the
CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION curl_easy_setopt option which offers something
similar to what you ask for.

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