On Saturday 23 April 2005 06:52 pm, you wrote:
> Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > i would change:
> >
> > --sslcerttype=0/1 to --sslcerttype=PEM/ASN1
> > --sslcheckcert=1/0 to --no-sslcheckcert/--sslcheckcert
> > --sslprotocol=0-3 to --no-ssl/--ssl=SSLv2/SSLv3/TLSv1
>
> The name could (and IMHO should) be made even more readable,
> e.g. --ssl-cert-type or even --ssl-certificate-type.  It might make
> sense to drop the "ssl" prefix altogether because those options also
> apply to TLS.  The option would then be --certificate-type, which is
> shorter and nicer.  I believe curl has done that.
>
> Since --sslprotocol can specify TLS protocol, it might be more
> accurate to name it --secure-protocol (--protocol is too general),
> with the accepted values "auto" (default), "sslv2", "sslv3", and
> "tlsv1", all case-insensitive.  (Note that the current --sslprotocol=0
> does *not* correspond to --no-ssl; it means choose automatically.  The
> fact that it confused you is further proof of the brokenness of
> current option names!)

--certificate-type and --secure-protocol seem fine for me.

> > the other options seem fine to me, although i prefer names like
> > --ssl_cert_file than --sslcertfile.
>
> Sure, except it should be --ssl-cert-file; Wget (and GNU software in
> general) doesn't use underscores in option names.

right. 

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