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On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 17:55:28 +0000 Neil Bowers <neilb@neilb.org> wrote: > When you install Perl, although it comes with HTTP::Tiny, it doesn't support https because HTTP::Tiny requires IO::Socket::SSL (which isnt bundled with Perl). This means that CPAN.pm and other tools can't make https mandatory, as when bootstrapping a new box you'll typically install perl then run cpan to first install Net::SSLeay and IO::Socket::SSL. > > I think we should make Perl support https "out of the box", so that CPAN.pm could make https mandatory, and other modules could then support https while relying only on core modules. > > One approach is to bundle Net::SSLeay and IO::Socket::SSL, but I don't know if that's the best / right solution? > > One problem with bundling these modules is that we are then committed to ensuring that they work on all supported platforms / configurations. Is it ok to support https out-of-the-box on some supported platforms but not all of them? I think so. We have a few optional core modules with external dependencies. For example, we don't build DB_File when BerkeleyDB isn't installed. I think it would be acceptable to do the same with the SSL modules. In the future we might want to extend IO::Socket::SSL with additional non-OpenSSL backends (e.g. pure-perl, SChannel for Windows), but that shouldn't block its inclusion in core.Thread Previous | Thread Next