[Info-vax] cURL

[osuvman50 at gmail.com]

On Wednesday, August 22, 2018 at 3:35:47 PM UTC-4, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> How good/robust/useful is cURL for VMS?  I'm thinking of installing it.  
> Apparently one gets a PCSI file, which indicates that it is probably 
> well adapted to VMS.  Should I expect it to work out of the box?
> 

I built Curl 7.41 (released Feb 2015) from sources with no source code changes 
by jiggering a way to compile /names=as_is and still link it against the OpenVMS
SSL images.  I rebuilt it this spring using the OpenSSL 1.0.2o libraries from
OpenSSL.org.  It meets my needs, but I only use it in a couple scripts that need
to download files from https-only web servers.

Using Curl for TLS opens up the whole can of worms of where you get root CA
certificates you can trust.  I cheated and exported the list from the Chrome
browsers's cert. manager as a PKCS12 file, using a script to import them into
the SSL$CERTS directory.