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

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

From: Dean Michael Berris Friday, February 19, 2010 10:41 AM

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

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

> --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.

Does this *have* to be a compile-time option?  Can't we just not
#include some https files?>

>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.

Okay, thanks for the detailed response.

Erik