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Alberto, I just sent a duplicate response under the original thread, please send a duplicate reply to that one. Everyone else, please don't further respond to this altered subject thread copy. -- Darren Duncan On 2022-06-16 2:09 a.m., Alberto Simões wrote: > ------- Original Message ------- > On Wednesday, June 15th, 2022 at 23:48, Darren Duncan wrote: > >> Perl bundles an implementation of HTTPS support including certs or whatever, so >> there is zero dependency on any HTTPS library or files being with the operating >> system. > > While I understand Darren proposal's goal, and at some point it makes sense, I do not think it is the solution more interesting to Perl developers and Perl itself. > > This suggestion is almost like including an HTTP client that can just connect to CPAN, and if you want to connect to anywhere else, then download a module from there. > > But this is not the case. Perl ships with a fairy good, although tiny, implementation of a HTTP Client. And nowadays, you almost do not need anything else to perform HTTP connections. Nevertheless, not having HTTPS support makes it, day by day, more useless without extra modules. > > Thus, I do not think it is worth the effort of streamlining an SSL library to ship with code to just connect to one specific host. > > Of course, just my 5 cents :-) > Kindest regards, > Alberto (aka ambs)Thread Previous