Initializing SSL and libcurl and getting “out of memory”

Question

I intend to do https requests with libcurl and openssl with a C++ program.

I initialized libcurl with curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL) as described in the

Answer 1

I'm not aware of any problem in libcurl that would cause this error code to get returned if indeed a memory allocation function doesn't fail. Using OpenSSL in multiple modules does not cause such a failure. (I am the lead developer of libcurl.)

So, run your app with VERBOSE set to libcurl, or even strace to see which syscall that fails and it should give you more clues.