Ref: #10163
- This is a niche TLS library, only running on some IBM systems
- no regular curl contributors use this backend
- no CI builds use or verify this backend
- gskit, or the curl adaption for it, lacks many modern TLS features
making it an inferior solution
- build breakages in this code take weeks or more to get detected
- fixing gskit code is mostly done "flying blind"
Closes#10201
If curl_off_t turns out to be smaller than 8 bytes,
--with-n64-deprecated needs to be used to allow the build to
continue. This is to highlight the fact that support for such builds is
going away next year.
Also mentioned in DEPRECATED.md
Closes#9605
Next Protocol Negotiation is a TLS extension that was created and used
for agreeing to use the SPDY protocol (the precursor to HTTP/2) for
HTTPS. In the early days of HTTP/2, before the spec was finalized and
shipped, the protocol could be enabled using this extension with some
servers.
curl supports the NPN extension with some TLS backends since then, with
a command line option `--npn` and in libcurl with
`CURLOPT_SSL_ENABLE_NPN`.
HTTP/2 proper is made to use the ALPN (Application-Layer Protocol
Negotiation) extension and the NPN extension has no purposes
anymore. The HTTP/2 spec was published in May 2015.
Today, use of NPN in the wild should be extremely rare and most likely
totally extinct. Chrome removed NPN support in Chrome 51, shipped in
June 2016. Removed in Firefox 53, April 2017.
Closes#9307
Mostly based on recent language decisions from "everything curl":
- remove contractions (isn't => is not)
- *an* HTTP (consistency)
- runtime (no hyphen)
- backend (no hyphen)
- URL is uppercase
Closes#8646
As detailed in DEPRECATE.md, the polarssl support is now removed after
having been disabled for 6 months and nobody has missed it.
The threadlock files used by mbedtls are renamed to an 'mbedtls' prefix
instead of the former 'polarssl' and the common functions that
previously were shared between mbedtls and polarssl and contained the
name 'polarssl' have now all been renamed to instead say 'mbedtls'.
Closes#4825
As the plan has been laid out in DEPRECATED. Update docs accordingly and
verify in test 1174. Now requires the option to be set to allow HTTP/0.9
responses.
Closes#4191
Remove the code too. The functionality has been disabled in code since
7.62.0. Setting this option will from now on simply be ignored and have
no function.
Closes#3654
Added CURLOPT_HTTP09_ALLOWED and --http0.9 for this purpose.
For now, both the tool and library allow HTTP/0.9 by default.
docs/DEPRECATE.md lays out the plan for when to reverse that default: 6
months after the 7.64.0 release. The options are added already now so
that applications/scripts can start using them already now.
Fixes#2873Closes#3383
As has been outlined in the DEPRECATE.md document, the axTLS code has
been disabled for 6 months and is hereby removed.
Use a better supported TLS library!
Assisted-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Closes#3194
- replace tabs with spaces where possible
- remove line ending spaces
- remove double/triple newlines at EOF
- fix a non-UTF-8 character
- cleanup a few indentations/line continuations
in manual examples
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3037
