What is libcurl and ssi open?

My sites won't work unless this is installed.

[lizzie]

I have problems finding hosting that my sites will work on. They are ready made commerce sites. On many hosting services the "BUY" buttons do not show up. This is because either the hosting service does not have cURL installed or not installed correctly, with SSI open. I don't know what this is, cURL and what does it mean SSI open? Is this hard for hosting services to install? Why do I have such problems finding hosting services that these sites will work on?

[DaveAtIFG]

Note: I spliced the following related discussion onto this one

[lizzie]

I need a reseller account for 12 sites I manage that use libcurl with open SSI. I have moved these sites 3 times. They won't work without this and the dumb people I have been getting these cheap reseller accounts from don't know what I am talking about. I don't want to spend more than $15 a month and I don't want a lecture about how I need to spend more money, thanks.

[plumsauce]

and the dumb people I have been getting these cheap reseller accounts from don't know what I am talking about. I don't want to spend more than $15 a month

uh-huh

[lizzie]

That's real nice. There are such things out there, uh-huh.

[divaone]

have you tried findahost.com? as far as the specifics you are looking for, i cannot provide that info as i've had no need for that feature, but i can recommend dreamhost based on the great support. otherwise, could you not request your current host install mods and anything else you need.. especially if you are giving them business, even indirectly.

[lizzie]

I have tried! They don't know what it is or how to install it!

[balam]

> What is libcurl and ssi open?

> the dumb people I have been getting these cheap reseller accounts from don't know what I am talking about.

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You are not looking for something called "ssi open", you are looking for OpenSSL - openssl.org.

(While I'm at it - curl.haxx.se)

[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 3:53 am (utc) on Jan. 9, 2004]
[edit reason] Removed off topic remarks [/edit]

[RoseMarie]

Had to look this one up. Never heard of it before...

cURL and libcurl are libaries that allow a webserver to transfer files with a remote computer using a variety of Internet protocols. The libaries are highly configurable, allowing practically any type of client-server request to be peformed. By using these tools, a webserver can act as a client, creating and responding to requests using any technology built on HTTP, like XML-RPC, SOAP, or WebDAV.

cURL stands for "Client URLs", and was developed by Daniel Stenberg in 1998 as a command line tool. libcurl is a portable library that provides an easy interface to the cURL functionality. It is thread safe, IPv6 compatible, and supports persistent connections. The libcurl PHP binding was added by Sterling Hughes.

Both cURL and libcurl can transfer files using a wide variety of protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, LDAP, DICT, TELNET and FILE. The libraries run on practically any *NIX operating system, as well as Windows, OS/2, BeOS, and many more.

The cURL libraries are truly open source, with an MIT/X derivative license. This license is very liberal, allowing the use of cURL for whatever you want, commercial or not. You can use libcurl for free, and even include and distribute it with your own application, whether commercial or closed-source.