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After a research team wrote a document[1] that found several live source codes out there in the wild that misused the CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST option thinking it was a boolean, this change now bans 1 as a value and will make libcurl return error for it. 1 was never a sensible value to use in production but was introduced back in the days to help debugging. It was always documented clearly this way. 1 was never supported by all SSL backends in libcurl, so this cleanup makes the treatment of it unified. The report's list of mistakes for this option were all PHP code and while there's a binding layer between libcurl and PHP, the PHP team has decided that they have an as thin layer as possible on top of libcurl so they will not alter or specifically filter a 'TRUE' value for this particular option. I sympathize with that position. [1] = http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/10/25/libcurl-claimed-to-be-dangerous/
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README
Curl is a command line tool for transferring data specified with URL
syntax. Find out how to use curl by reading the curl.1 man page or the
MANUAL document. Find out how to install Curl by reading the INSTALL
document.
libcurl is the library curl is using to do its job. It is readily
available to be used by your software. Read the libcurl.3 man page to
learn how!
You find answers to the most frequent questions we get in the FAQ document.
Study the COPYING file for distribution terms and similar. If you distribute
curl binaries or other binaries that involve libcurl, you might enjoy the
LICENSE-MIXING document.
CONTACT
If you have problems, questions, ideas or suggestions, please contact us
by posting to a suitable mailing list. See http://curl.haxx.se/mail/
All contributors to the project are listed in the THANKS document.
WEB SITE
Visit the curl web site for the latest news and downloads:
http://curl.haxx.se/
GIT
To download the very latest source off the GIT server do this:
git clone git://github.com/bagder/curl.git
(you'll get a directory named curl created, filled with the source code)
NOTICE
Curl contains pieces of source code that is Copyright (c) 1998, 1999
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan. This notice is included here to comply with the
distribution terms.