The end of curl (in phobos)

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On Monday, 9 May 2016 at 08:55:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> But given that std.net.curl handles stuff like SSL/TLS, we 
> _can't_ actually replace all of its functionality - at least 
> not without adding a dependency on a different C library, since 
> there's no way that it's sane to do the crypto stuff ourselves 
> without a crypto expert, and even then, we should think twice 
> about it. I could see implementing the SSL/TLS protocols 
> themselves but not the crypto they use. If we replace 
> std.net.curl, we likely should just provide the basic HTTP 
> functionality, and leave the rest to a dub package that we move 
> std.net.curl to.

Any chances that we can produce good crypto code over time? And 
verify it with experts, of course.

> In addition, Phobos is not tied to curl's release cycle, and if 
> curl gets a version bump on someone's system, and Phobos hasn't 
> been updated to match, they're going to have a problem. And if 
> we updated to match the version bump, and their distro hadn't, 
> then we'd also have a problem.

Oh, that explains why I constantly ran into [this issue][0]. 
While it was fixed in curl itself.

[0]: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/447