Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] OpenSSL and cpp-netlib

[Nelson, E. - 2 <eri...@ba...>]

From: Dean Michael Berris on Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:56 AM

>Unfortunately because we support HTTPS, we require OpenSSL everytime.
>There should be a way to disable it though.

A few things to think about in the discussion

--there are a number of SSL providers available... OpenSSL, MatrixSSL,
MS Windows API
--OpenSSL may be packaged with most GNU/Linux distributions, but it's
not on Windows
--OpenSSL has a dependency on Perl to build on MS Windows, so an
additional dependency is created (Perl is not packaged with Windows)

I understand that the effect could be made with a define like
BOOST_NETLIB_NO_SSL, but that seems like a big hammer... Is there no
other way to pay for only what you use (http, in this case)?

As an aside, I previously investigated building both MatrixSSL and
OpenSSL into my portable (Windows/Linux) app and found MatrixSSL much
simpler to work with.

Erik