[cpp-netlib-devel] HTTPS Opt-In vs Opt-Out (was Re: Cpp-netlib Comments)

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

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Matt Trentini <mat...@gm...> wrote:
> Heya Dean,
>
>> Yes, I'm working on it at the moment. On the 0.7-devel branch, I shall
>> be pushing soon a fix that allows users to define the
>> BOOST_NETWORK_NO_HTTPS ....
>
> Great, thanks for this!
>

You're welcome. :)

> But have you considered making HTTPS an opt-in feature instead?  So
> you'd have to define BOOST_NETWORK_HTTPS to *allow* HTTPS connections.
>

I have, and the code's really set up to make that easy to change.

> I'm not of a strong opinion either way but, in particular, I suspect
> that the most common complaint we'll face from devs new to cpp-netlib
> is that "the code doesn't compile" because they didn't know to add a
> #define or a dependency to OpenSSL.
>

Yeah, especially on Windows.

I think I'll just fix that and make it an opt-in feature instead --
just because I'm tired of fighting it and I think limiting the
requirements on non-Boost libraries would be a good thing.

Expect me to change this to:

BOOST_NETWORK_ENABLE_HTTPS

In my next push.

Thanks to you, Erik, and Fernando for giving me enough reasons to
change this and actually do it. :)

-- 
Dean Michael Berris
deanberris.com