Re: SSL option documentation

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

> Doug Kaufman <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > I think that somewhere in the documentation, we might want to
> > include mention of the environment variables inherited from openssl
> > which point to the bundle of trusted certs and the directory with
> > the hashed trusted certs, "SSL_CERT_FILE" and "SSL_CERT_DIR",
> 
> Good point.  One reason why they're not mentioned is that I didn't
> know about them.  Did I mention that SSL support was contributed by an
> external volunteer with no documentation whatsoever?
> 
> > binary file. When I looked last, the environment variables for
> > openssl aren't documented well outside the openssl source code.
> 
> That's a shame.  Oh well.

I just grep'd again through the openssl distribution, and there is no
mention of the environment variables in any of the documentation, just
in the code itself. The only documentation that mentions the environment
variables that I know of is the (mostly obsolete) FAQ for SSLeay and
SSLapps at "http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~ftp/Crypto/" (section 28).
                          Doug

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