CURLOPT_SSLVERSION clarified

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Daniel Stenberg 2005-05-12 21:49:42 +00:00
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.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "25 Jan 2005" "libcurl 7.13.0" "libcurl Manual"
.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "12 May 2005" "libcurl 7.14.0" "libcurl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl_easy_setopt - set options for a curl easy handle
.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBNOTE:\fP If the crypto device cannot be set,
\fICURLE_SSL_ENGINE_SETFAILED\fP is returned.
.IP CURLOPT_SSLVERSION
Pass a long as parameter. Set what version of SSL to attempt to use, 2 or
3. By default, the SSL library will try to solve this by itself although some
servers make this difficult why you at times may have to use this option.
Pass a long as parameter to control what version of SSL/TLS to attempt to use.
The available options are:
.RS
.IP CURL_SSLVERSION_DEFAULT
The default action. When libcurl built with OpenSSL, this will attempt to
figure out the remote SSL protocol version. Unfortunately there are a lot of
ancient and broken servers in use which cannot handle this technique and will
fail to connect. When libcurl is built with GnuTLS, this will mean SSLv3.
.IP CURL_SSLVERSION_TLSv1
Force TLSv1
.IP CURL_SSLVERSION_SSLv2
Force SSLv2
.IP CURL_SSLVERSION_SSLv3
Force SSLv3
.RE
.IP CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER
Pass a long as parameter.
This option determines whether curl verifies the authenticity of the