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From:
Martijn Lievaart
Date:
December 3, 2021 16:35
Subject:
Re: OpenSSL alternative support WAS Re: Pre-RFC: supporthttpsout-of-the-box
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86ced918-856f-8c15-c40b-cb2caa114870@rtij.nl
Op 03-12-2021 om 17:13 schreef Tomasz Konojacki:
> 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.
>

In that case, a major reason for getting ssl in core went away, and it 
is indeed just one of the features we may or may not add, like the csv 
support I requested.


HTH,

M4



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