Re: [Bug-wget] let's fix the openssl backend once and for all (was: Patch Test-proxied-https-auth.px)

[Daniel Stenberg]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:

> and this remembers us that maintaining two different backends is not a good 
> idea.  I am for just moving to GNU TLS and forget about OpenSSL. It is a bit 
> drastic but I think it is a better move for the long term. And we get rid of 
> the copyright exception as well...

Allow me to throw a (much more) crazy idea at you:

Consider sharing the TLS backend setup that libcurl has[1]. It currently 
supports 9 (or 11, depending on how you count libressl/boringssl) TLS 
libraries using a unified internal function set... It would for example allow 
more small foot-print libs to be used, and the native TLS libs on platforms 
like mac and windows.

[1] = there would be some amount of work involved to make it happen, from both 
parties, but I think there would be mutual benefit. The code is somewhat 
separated in the libcurl code base already, but would need some further polish 
to get properly useful.

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