On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, Woods wrote:

> I notice there are two ways to bundle ca: (1) set a configure option
> and build; (2) set curl option in program.
> I wish to know if the first way incurs less overhead?

The end up doing pretty much the exact same operations so it doesn't matter.

> I mean if setting curl option in program will cause the ca.perm to be read
> repeatedly when curl handle is set with bundle option? Or if we set it in
> configure stage, and curl library will load it once and reuse among curl
> handles?

It depends on the SSL library in use, but it will always be read for all new
connections with some of them.

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