From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:51:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Work around curl-gnutls not liking to be reinitialized
Message-ID: <loom.20080209T214811-305@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <1202550096-13233-1-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org>

Mike Hommey <mh <at> glandium.org> writes:

> curl versions 7.16.3 to 7.18.0 included had a regression in which https
> requests following curl_global_cleanup/init sequence would fail with ASN1
> parser errors with curl-gnutls. Such sequences happen in some cases such
> as git fetch.

Hi git hackers,

I am the main libcurl author and maintainer.

While I agree that this is a regression and a bug in libcurl, it puzzles me why
you found it in the first place. curl_global_init and curl_global_cleanup should
only be needed to call once per program's lifetime. I can't think of any
practical use to do this re-init at all. You will only waste time on this.

So, your best fix for this problem is to simply to a curl_global_init() in the
beginning and a curl_global_cleanup() in the end.

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