1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: ssl 5Help: Try enabling TLS 6Protocols: FTP IMAP POP3 SMTP LDAP 7Added: 7.20.0 8Category: tls 9Multi: boolean 10See-also: 11 - ssl-reqd 12 - insecure 13 - ciphers 14Example: 15 - --ssl pop3://example.com/ 16--- 17 18# `--ssl` 19 20Warning: this is considered an insecure option. Consider using --ssl-reqd 21instead to be sure curl upgrades to a secure connection. 22 23Try to use SSL/TLS for the connection. Reverts to a non-secure connection if 24the server does not support SSL/TLS. See also --ftp-ssl-control and --ssl-reqd 25for different levels of encryption required. 26 27This option is handled in LDAP (added in 7.81.0). It is fully supported by the 28OpenLDAP backend and ignored by the generic ldap backend. 29 30Please note that a server may close the connection if the negotiation does 31not succeed. 32 33This option was formerly known as --ftp-ssl (added in 7.11.0). That option 34name can still be used but might be removed in a future version. 35
