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From:
Tomasz Konojacki
Date:
December 3, 2021 16:13
Subject:
Re: OpenSSL alternative support WAS Re: Pre-RFC: supporthttpsout-of-the-box
Message ID:
20211203171332.4B23.5C4F47F8@xenu.pl
On Fri, 3 Dec 2021 12:41:08 +0100
Salvador Fandino <sfandino@gmail.com> wrote:

> In this regard, and in the context of just bootstrapping a CPAN client, I think that using standalone TLS/HTTPS clients should be also considered.
> 
> Getting Net::SSLeay to compile against OpenSSL (or any other SSL client library) can be pretty difficult, but just wrapping something like "openssl s_client" command is mostly trivial. "socat", "curl" or "wget" are other options.

CPAN.pm already uses wget or curl when IO::Socket::SSL isn't available
and a https mirror was requested.


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