CURLOPT_SSLVERSION clarified

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.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "25 Jan 2005" "libcurl 7.13.0" "libcurl Manual"

.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "12 May 2005" "libcurl 7.14.0" "libcurl Manual"

.SH NAME

curl_easy_setopt - set options for a curl easy handle

.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBNOTE:\fP If the crypto device cannot be set,

\fICURLE_SSL_ENGINE_SETFAILED\fP is returned.

.IP CURLOPT_SSLVERSION

Pass a long as parameter. Set what version of SSL to attempt to use, 2 or

3. By default, the SSL library will try to solve this by itself although some

servers make this difficult why you at times may have to use this option.

Pass a long as parameter to control what version of SSL/TLS to attempt to use.

The available options are:

.RS

.IP CURL_SSLVERSION_DEFAULT

The default action. When libcurl built with OpenSSL, this will attempt to

figure out the remote SSL protocol version. Unfortunately there are a lot of

ancient and broken servers in use which cannot handle this technique and will

fail to connect. When libcurl is built with GnuTLS, this will mean SSLv3.

.IP CURL_SSLVERSION_TLSv1

Force TLSv1

.IP CURL_SSLVERSION_SSLv2

Force SSLv2

.IP CURL_SSLVERSION_SSLv3

Force SSLv3

.RE

.IP CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER

Pass a long as parameter.

This option determines whether curl verifies the authenticity of the