Re: CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS_STR man page

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On Sun, 14 Jun 2026, dogma via curl-library wrote:

> I specify "http,https,file", thinking to be more secure when I’m not doing 
> anything useful with the other schemes anyway 
> (https://curl.se/libcurl/security.html showing how nasty a protocol such as 
> scp can be). A user configures libcurl to disable "http". The call fails and 
> I haven’t accomplished anything.

If you set the protocols you need your application to use, then a failure 
means that you can't continue!

> I guess I have to consult the protocol list out of curl_version_info() as I 
> construct my string?

If you really want to adjust to crazy custom libcurl builds, yes.

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