Re: Building libcurl for multiple Linuxes / CA store

Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.library
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On Sun, 8 Dec 2024, Scott Talbert wrote:

>> Why do this in libcurl when you can with less effort do that logic in your 
>> application? Then you can make it work exactly the way you want it to, 
>> without having to care about others.
>
> Calling pycurl an application is a bit of a stretch, but I suppose from 
> libcurl's perspective, everything is an application.  :)

Yeah. I suppose I should have said "in your code using libcurl".

> Initially, I wasn't thinking it would be possible to do runtime CA bundle 
> auto-detection in a way that's transparent to end users of pycurl, but after 
> looking at how libcurl handles CURL_CA_BUNDLE (it seems to ultimately do 
> what setting CURLOPT_CAINFO does), I think it should be fine for pycurl to 
> set CURLOPT_CAINFO before handing over the handle to the end user.

What code in libcurl does this in runtime? I can't find any such code. I think 
you might look at code in the curl tool, which incidentally is an application 
using libcurl... :-)

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