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From:
Tomasz Konojacki
Date:
December 10, 2021 16:54
Subject:
Re: OpenSSL alternative support WAS Re: Pre-RFC: support httpsout-of-the-box
Message ID:
20211210175413.CEFC.5C4F47F8@xenu.pl
On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:45:29 +0100
Tomasz Konojacki <me@xenu.pl> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 10:37:19 +0000
> Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> 
> > 2) Are curl and wget likely to be found on Win32? Is there any command line
> >    tool that a HTTP::TIMTOWTDI module can shell out to, to deal with https?
> 
> Windows ships with curl.exe since Windows 10 1803.

PS. BSDs are a bigger problem that Windows. While CPAN.pm can fall back
to curl/wget, neither of them are available there OOTB, at least on
FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD. They provide "fetch" command instead.
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