On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Howard Chu wrote:
IMO, freedom of choice is only valid when all the choices are of equal technical merit, reducing the choice to just personal taste. There may be a multitude of TLS libraries, but they are definitely not equivalent in technical merit.
As I see things, the existing libraries all provide different features and reasons for selecting or deselecting them. They are all different in many aspects, which I think is the reason we have support for this many right now.
People who build and use libcurl with a SSL-based protocol might ask themselves among other questions:
Is a particular feature important? Is a particular license important? Is a particular certification important? Is the binary size important? Do you need smart cart support? Do you need to support a particular SSL/TLS version? Do you need to run it on a particular OS?
Also, we know LOTS of other tools and libraries out there already support selecting one or another library so it is a fairly common thing to do...
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