Fedora considers curl-minimal [LWN.net]

Fedora considers curl-minimal

Posted Mar 10, 2022 8:52 UTC (Thu) by SLi (subscriber, #53131)
In reply to: Fedora considers curl-minimal by jd
Parent article: Fedora considers curl-minimal

It doesn't seem to even be what's compiled in but what's enabled by default. Perhaps there could be a configuration file in which you can enable protocols you need one by one (and disable ones enabled by default)?

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Fedora considers curl-minimal

Posted Mar 10, 2022 9:03 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link] (2 responses)

You cannot determine this list globally. There's already a mechanism in libcurl to limit protocols that can be used (CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS). It has to be invoked by the programs linking to it since they are the only thing that know what protocols they're expecting to use.

Fedora considers curl-minimal

Posted Mar 10, 2022 11:35 UTC (Thu) by SLi (subscriber, #53131) [Link] (1 responses)

How is determining it globally worse than having the option to have either curl-minimal or curl-full installed? To me, it seems it would provide the best of both worlds, and you could also provide an API for interested clients to say "I want to enable support for Gopher".

Fedora considers curl-minimal

Posted Mar 10, 2022 11:52 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link]

It's not how curl works now and curl already has an API for limiting protocols. I would suggest discussing any plans with upstream curl.