The end of curl (in phobos)

[ZombineDev via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 9 May 2016 at 09:35:18 UTC, sigod wrote:
> 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.

https://github.com/etcimon/botan AFAIK, it is already used in 
production by its author, in combination with libasync + vibe.d + 
http2 for a full stack D solution.

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