On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, amit paliwal wrote: > > I have seen that curl_easy_getinfo() provides several options to fetch >> relevant information. I was just wondering why it does not provide any >> option to fetch the SSL context, i.e. SSL pointer, from SSL_ctx. >> >> Is there any particular reason for it? this might be a good feature for >> implementing proprietary stuffs. >> > > Sure, the primary reason is probably: > > Those are all OpenSSL-specific pointers and libcurl can use any out of > seven different SSL libraries. > > And also, for those who use libcurl built with OpenSSL there is already the > CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION curl_easy_setopt option which offers something > similar to what you ask for. > > Reply: Thanks, it will help. > -- > > / daniel.haxx.se > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library > Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html > -- Regards, Amit
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