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

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Nelson, Erik - 2
<eri...@ba...> wrote:
> 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

If Boost.Asio works with any of these, then you should be able to link to them.

> --OpenSSL may be packaged with most GNU/Linux distributions, but it's
> not on Windows

Yes. Although the choice of OpenSSL is made by Boost.Asio. Where
Boost.Asio works, cpp-netlib should work too.

> --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)?
>

There should be a compile-time option for that, although it's not yet
implemented. Boost.Asio has a way of turning off SSL support too.

> 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.
>

Again, if Boost.Asio works with it then it should be doable.
cpp-netlib depends on Boost.Asio to provide the SSL support and
functionality at the transport level. cpp-netlib is much higher level
for that.

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