On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Dr. Stephen Henson <st...@openssl.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Michael Mueller <abaci....@gmail.com> 
>> > wrote:
>> > > i was going to do this:
>> > >
>> > > SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2 | SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION);
>> > Yeah, it looks like that's the option. I would prefer to remove the
>> > code paths all together though.
>> >
>> > If the code path does not exist, it cannot be executed.
>> >
>>
>> Unless OpenSSL has been build with the zlib or zlib-dynamic option it wont 
>> use
>> zlib. Since that's the only compression method standardised for SSL/TLS it
>> effectively disables compression for SSL/TLS as a side effect as there are no
>> compression methods available.
>>
>
> Ugh, that'll teach me not to do a "make clean" first. Correction:
>
> If you use "no-comp" it will remove the compression library from OpenSSL
> entirely but due to a bug (fix just committed) you'll get a linker error.
Thanks Doctor.

Does OpenSSL have a web front-end on its version control system so I
can copy/paste the relevant changes for the commit? I'm trying avoid
moving too far away from 1.0.1c proper (May 10, 2012) since it
advertised on the download page (http://www.openssl.org/source/).

Jeff
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