Re: LibreOffice uses SChannel and SecureTransport, please don't remove them

Ilmari Lauhakangas via curl-library <[email protected]>
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On 14.1.2025 16.48, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, Ilmari Lauhakangas via curl-library wrote:
> 
>> https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/01/14/secure-transport-support-in- 
>> curl-is-on-its-way-out/ LibreOffice protests the removal of SChannel 
>> and SecureTransport as we currently rely on them in our use of curl.
> 
> Can you please elaborate on how exactly you rely on them and why it is 
> hard/impossible for you to switch to another backend?

The main advantage is that users can use the OS UI to add self-signed 
certificates and then presumably they work automatically with 
LibreOffice. At the moment we don't know, if this could be pulled off 
with OpenSSL as well.

Ilmari
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