Re: address@hidden: Use tls.el instead of ssl.el for HTTPS?]

[Simon Josefsson]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     It is probably bad to prefer ssl.el over tls.el in Emacs code, since
>     many people have old ssl.el laying around, and they may work less well
>     than tls.el.
>
> If URL works fine with tls.el, let's change it now to stop using ssl.
> Magnus, would you please do that?
>
> Simon, do you think we should move ssl.el to obsolete?

ssl.el is not part of Emacs and, as far as I know, never was -- but
many people still have it installed.

If someone could test that URL works with tls.el, that would be
useful.  But I have no idea how to test this...  (url-retrieve
"https://www.ibm.com/"; 'princ) perhaps?  Hm, yes, that appears to
work, and appears to use tls.el too.

/Simon