[Info-vax] cURL

[John E. Malmberg]

On 8/22/2018 8:07 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of John E.
>> Malmberg via Info-vax
>> Sent: August 22, 2018 8:24 PM
>> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
>> Cc: John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw at qsl.net_work>
>> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] cURL
>>
>> On 8/22/2018 4:16 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
>>> On 08/22/2018 01:35 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>> How good/robust/useful is cURL for VMS?  I'm thinking of installing it.
>>>
>>> I know that @bagder on Twitter would like to make curl better if
>>> there's a way that he can.  He's quite responsive too.
>>
>> VSI has a cURL kit.  I do not know what is in it.
>>
>> VMSPORTS Sourceforge site has an older cURL package that has a libcurl
>> shared image, and it requires the ZLIB and the older HP SSL 1.4 package,
> (Or
>> even older SSL for the VAX package).
>>
>> The HP SSL 1.4 kit has a bug in it where it is missing a transfer vector.
> This can
>> be worked around as per the latest VMSPORTS kit which includes source, but
>> Haxx.se will not accept the patch because of license conflicts.
>>
>> I have not had time to try to build cURL with the newer OpenSSL.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -John
>>
> 
> John - is this not the latest kit? (7.61.0)
> 
> <https://curl.haxx.se/download.html#VMS>

That link is supposed to be monitoring the sourceforge vmsports dowload 
directory.

I have not checked recently, but tt has not worked in a couple of years, 
falsely claiming  that newer kits are available.

Regards,
-John.