Daniel Stenberg wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Richard Gray wrote:

My main thrust in bringing this up was documentation about SSL
initialization and whether or not libcurl should protect against SSL use
when it hasn't been initialized.  Not a big deal, because I know I was
screwing up.

I did at least expand a little in the docs on what the bits are for and what
it means to not set them:

   https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_global_init.html

"Doing TLS based transfers without having the TLS layer initialized may lead to unexpected behaviors. "

Crashes - the ultimate unexpected behavior.  ;)

Now I get past that only to discover that this printer is so old that WinSSL refuses to talk to it. Neither will SeaMonkey (Mozilla). So I need to figure out how to allow libcurl to be as permissive as possible, taking the best security it can get when forced to go HTTPS. But that's another thread, I guess, if I can't find something by searching. And maybe another day given other things that are biting me right now... :(

Thanks!
Rich

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