With the move to ats 10 and the cmake build the question came up if we should 
continue to support the traffic_top feature to do remote logic to trafficserver 
instances to get information.

We currently have a PR https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/10814 to 
remove the checking and need for curl in traffic_top.

The arguments for the removal of libcurl are:


  1.  this feature is traffic_top is not being used
  2.  reduces dependencies in the building of trafficserver for a feature that 
is not known for being used
  3.  from a security point of view, it would be more secure to login to the 
remote host instead of using this feature

There may be other arguments for removal. It is not really known if anyone 
needs this ability in the future or not.

Please speak up if we need to keep the curl dependency for use with the 
traffic_top remote feature.

Jason

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