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From:
Andrew Hewus Fresh
Date:
December 9, 2021 16:43
Subject:
Re: OpenSSL alternative support WAS Re: Pre-RFC: support httpsout-of-the-box
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YbIyG3lo8dbSn5Fx@us.holligan.net
On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 08:40:21AM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
<SNIP>
> Or maybe HTTP::Tiny could have support for Net::Curl shoehorned into
> it, but then it wouldn't be that tiny and would add libcurl as a
> dependency.
>
> There are numerous non-trivial development efforts that could broaden
> TLS support to different implementations.  But if Perl core does
> anything near-term, I think it needs to focus on bundling what's
> already available.  Just my $0.02.

HTTP::Tinyish[1] already wraps the HTTP::Tiny interface over several
implementations like LWP, curl, and wget.  I have a hack[2] to make
HTTP::Tiny use the LibreSSL nc that has tls support[3] (some features
already supported) that could be added to Tinyish.

[1] https://metacpan.org/pod/HTTP::Tinyish
[2] https://gist.github.com/afresh1/c4ac35cdd29e6b2cd15eef38246c4c71
[3] https://man.openbsd.org/nc.1#c

l8rZ,
--
andrew

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