Reco wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 01:17:15PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > David Wright wrote:
> > > Reco wrote:
> > > > So, in the case of doubt - you use curl or rebuild wget against
> > > > openssl. It's that simple.
> >
> > I know that people have strong feelings for and against curl and wget.
> > I haven't ever understood it. You are the first to quantify why you
> > think Debian's curl deals better with https sites. It appears the
> > issues all surround https handling.
>
> Indeed. For example, I stumble upon #686837 on regular basis.
>
> And I'd like to add that wget that's linked against gnutls *would* be
> good thing *if* it allowed to poke all GnuTLS knobs - #642051. But it
> does not.
You might be interested to see curl 7.42.1-2 entered unstable today.
It immediately started core dumping for me. But see also Bug#787638
where the affect was widespread and reportedly in libcurl3-gnutls. I
know that wget and httping were segfaulting for me too. An upgrade
later in the day pulled in more upgrades and solved the problem for me.
http://bugs.debian.org/342719
Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 13:13:15 +0200
Distribution: unstable
* Switch curl binary to libcurl3-gnutls (Closes: #342719)
This is the first step of a possible migration to a GnuTLS-only
libcurl for Debian. Let's see how it goes.
If you have opinions you might want to make your comments known.
Bob
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