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-Upgrading to curl/libcurl 7.10 from any previous version
-========================================================
-
-libcurl 7.10 performs peer SSL certificate verification by default. This is
-done by installing a default CA cert bundle on 'make install' (or similar),
-that CA bundle package is used by default on operations against SSL servers.
-
-Alas, if you communicate with HTTPS servers using certifcates that are signed
-by CAs present in the bundle, you will not notice any changed behavior and you
-will seeminglessly get a higher security level on your SSL connections since
-can be sure that the remote server really is the one it claims to be.
-
-If the remote server uses a self-signed certificate, or if you don't install
-curl's CA cert bundle or if it uses a certificate signed by a CA that isn't
-included in the bundle, then you need to do one of the following:
-
- 1. Tell libcurl to *not* verify the peer. With libcurl you disable with with
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
-
-    With the curl command tool, you disable this with -k/--insecure.
-
- 2. Get a CA certificate that can verify the remote server and use the proper
-    option to point out this CA cert for verification when connecting. For
-    libcurl hackers: curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CAPATH, capath);
-
-    With the curl command tool: --cacert [file]
-
-This upgrade procedure has been deemed The Right Thing even though it adds
-this extra trouble for some users, since it adds security to a majority of the
-SSL connections that previously weren't really secure.
-
-It turned out many people were using previous versions of curl/libcurl without
-realizing the need for the CA cert options to get truly secure SSL
-connections.