OT: SCO 5 6.0.0 - cURL Binaries / upgrade

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The problem isn't curl itself.  The problem is that you need a
sufficiently high OpenSSL version on the system against which curl can
be compiled.

The only people who can truly help with this are Xinuous.  At one point
a few years back, they were recommending an upgrade to their latest
combo Unix platform, and had forward-looking plans to release just such
an OpenSSL version (which by the time they would have gotten done would
have been over six months behind reality).  They were only going to
offer it for their latest version of OpenServer.

It was a bad bet to wait on them.

If you're serious about eCommerce, get them off SCO.  It's a dying
platform for anything to do with security and interoperability.

OpenSSL is also notoriously bitchy to compile, especially on SCO.

Given a system with a usable devkit, I'd be willing to make the attempt,
but it would -cost-, and not just a little.  $25k minimum for the attempt,
succeed or fail; more on success.  That's how bitchy it tends to be,
historically, and how much it would need to be made worth my time to even
make the attempt in good faith, on a dead platform.  Anyone doing it for
less is a fool, especially when you realise that it's going to support
a credit card gateway system which will be the cornerstone of someone's
business for years to come.  You get your money out of that up-front,
because you'll never see another cent out of it afterwards, if you do it
correctly.  At least not until the next mandatory TLS bump.  So how much do
they -actually- want to do their credit card processing on SCO? :)

They're better off being migrated to Linux.  Barring that, no, it
wouldn't (and shouldn't) be inexpensive.

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On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 10:01:01AM -0500, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> Waaaaay off topic but I have to ask:
> 
> I have a customer that is running on SCO 5 v6.0.0 and credit card processing
> company will no longer accept TLS lesser than 1.2;
> it appears that with that, we need to upgrade cURL from its current version
> of 7.2.### to a more recent version.
> 
> Do any of you (a) have a copy of cURL that would care to share (purchasing
> is an option BTW), (b) know of a link where said binaries
> could be found.
> 
> Thank you all in advance for your assistance!
> 
> 
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