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2021-12-9 4:12 Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote: > Two other facts which seem relevant, that haven't been mentioned so far: > > 1) Perl is currently supported on many more platforms than OpenSSL is > > 2) OpenSSL requires perl during its build process > > For both of these reasons, core perl *cannot* require OpenSSL. > > For these reasons, in many cases what Perl users need to do for SSL/TLS support is install IO::Socket::SSL(this depends Net::SSLeay). This needs one action. However, it's easy. If the distribution contains IO::Socket::SSL, Net::SSLeay and OpenSSL libraries, users use HTTPS from the beginning(For example, Strawberry Perl) On the other hand, I feel managing the SSL library and CA cert(like Mozilla::CA provides) by ourselves is too risky and costly(although I want to access HTTPS by default)Thread Previous | Thread Next