On Fri, Jun 04, 2010, grarpamp wrote: > Hello. > > How can I verify and test that a given openssl binary > installation supports zlib compression? > Can I simply [un]compress a file with openssl and > do the reverse with gzip as a command line test? > s_client and s_server? >
The OpenSSL use of zlib is currently not compatible with gzip: it just uses the raw zlib format which is suitable for use in the CMS compressed data type and SSL/TLS compression. If the binary supports zlib compression then > Are the zlib and zlib-dynamic options intended to be > exclusive? > Or is zlib-dynamic considered an optional additional > flag to the zlib option? > > Guess I'm having trouble understanding this part > and finding appropriate docs. Thanks :) -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
