Loading docs/KNOWN_BUGS +30 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written! 2.3 GnuTLS backend skips really long certificate fields 2.4 DarwinSSL won't import PKCS#12 client certificates without a password 2.5 Client cert handling with Issuer DN differs between backends 2.6 CURL_GLOBAL_SSL 3. Email protocols 3.1 IMAP SEARCH ALL truncated response Loading Loading @@ -238,6 +239,35 @@ problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written! See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1411 2.6 CURL_GLOBAL_SSL Since libcurl 7.57.0, the flag CURL_GLOBAL_SSL is a no-op. The change was merged in https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/d661b0afb571a It was removed since it was A) never clear for applications on how to deal with init in the light of different SSL backends (the option was added back in the days when life was simpler) B) multissl introduced dynamic switching between SSL backends which emphasized (A) even more C) libcurl uses some TLS backend functionality even for non-TLS functions (to get "good" random) so applications trying to avoid the init for performance reasons would do wrong anyway D) never very carefully documented so all this mostly just happened to work for some users However, in spite of the problems with the feature, there were some users who apparently depended on this feature and who now claim libcurl is broken for them. The fix for this situation is not obvious as a downright revert of the patch is totally ruled out due to those reasons above. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2276 3. Email protocols 3.1 IMAP SEARCH ALL truncated response Loading Loading
docs/KNOWN_BUGS +30 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written! 2.3 GnuTLS backend skips really long certificate fields 2.4 DarwinSSL won't import PKCS#12 client certificates without a password 2.5 Client cert handling with Issuer DN differs between backends 2.6 CURL_GLOBAL_SSL 3. Email protocols 3.1 IMAP SEARCH ALL truncated response Loading Loading @@ -238,6 +239,35 @@ problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written! See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1411 2.6 CURL_GLOBAL_SSL Since libcurl 7.57.0, the flag CURL_GLOBAL_SSL is a no-op. The change was merged in https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/d661b0afb571a It was removed since it was A) never clear for applications on how to deal with init in the light of different SSL backends (the option was added back in the days when life was simpler) B) multissl introduced dynamic switching between SSL backends which emphasized (A) even more C) libcurl uses some TLS backend functionality even for non-TLS functions (to get "good" random) so applications trying to avoid the init for performance reasons would do wrong anyway D) never very carefully documented so all this mostly just happened to work for some users However, in spite of the problems with the feature, there were some users who apparently depended on this feature and who now claim libcurl is broken for them. The fix for this situation is not obvious as a downright revert of the patch is totally ruled out due to those reasons above. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2276 3. Email protocols 3.1 IMAP SEARCH ALL truncated response Loading
