help needed to bring Windows SecureChannel to dlang-requests

[ikod]

On Monday, 24 August 2020 at 09:57:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On Monday, 24 August 2020 at 04:06:27 UTC, ikod wrote:
>
>> dlang requests is HTTP/FTP client library, inspired by 
>> python-requests. For long time it have support for ssl using 
>> dynamic load of openssl library version 1.0 or 1.1 (whatever 
>> user have in system). This works fine under Linux and OSX, but 
>> not under Windows.
>
> It's the same problem on macOS. Although, OpenSSL ships on 
> macOS, it's been deprecated since at least nine major versions 
> ago. The recommendation is if you want to use OpenSSL you 
> should ship it with the application. One major reason being 
> it's not ABI compatible between even minor versions. IIRC, 
> OpenSSL doesn't ship on iOS at all.
>
> I would love a version on macOS that uses platform provided 
> TLS/SSL implementation.

I think this is possible (thanks for reminding!), I have no 
problems with access and programming under OSX.

re your next message about linking with distributed library - I 
really dont want to distribute anything in binary form 
(especially security libs). I included these files as last resort 
for user.

>
> --
> /Jacob Carlborg