[Toybox] [PATCH] wget: add TLS support

[Rob Landley]

On 10/17/21 2:48 PM, Eric Molitor wrote:
> Let me take a look at signify I'll also send the missing part of the patch with
> -ltls shortly.
> 
> Alpine has libtls, either the openssl port in the libretls package or the
> original openbsd lbressl-tls. For my embedded stuff I'm statically linking
> BearSSL and https://github.com/michaelforney/libtls-bearssl
> <https://github.com/michaelforney/libtls-bearssl>

It's good that there are multiple libraries agreeing on an interface.

> I've not looked at Denny's implementation. But will take a peak at what he is doing.

I too am curious, but it's way down my todo heap.

> And yes, this violates the library policy, although I'd rather leverage a
> relatively known good TLS rather than implement a new one.

I'm all for having a library version _and_ a builtin version. But merging the
library version in the absence of the builtin version won't move it out of
pending. (That said, a more useful version in pending isn't bad. And it does
need the plumbing upgraded to understand https...)

Rob