Re: SChannel support in Git for Windows
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- Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix+git@007spb.ru>
- Date
- Jan 15, 2016, 15:59 UTC
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On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 10:04:17 -0500 Robert Labrie <robert.labrie@gmail.com> wrote:
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> But it would be more awesome if git just supported schannel on > Windows. I think cURL does already.
On the one hand, yes -- that would mean tighter integration into the system which is a good thing from the administrative standpoint.
On the other hand, IIUC, this artifically limits the capabilities of Git to whatever set of features the schannel implementation in a particular version of Windows supports. As a glaring example, support for TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 had never made it into Windows XP (and supposedly Windows Server 2003, though I may be wrong) despite its serious entrenchment. Among other things, that included IE (6, then 7, then 8). I do understand the reasons MS validly has for its push on its customers for upgrades, but ubiquitous OSes nearing their EOL become prone to lacking of certain features in their stacks. This well might be true for Windows 7 some 5 years down the road or so: from where I sit, it looks like corporate users have zero reasons to upgrade to 10.
Hence ideally there would be some switch which would make libCURL pick the implementation at runtime. But I'm afraid it's hardly doable.