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

As the descibed in this answer, you might need to disable SSLv3 if you are on Ubuntu 16.04 like so

curl_easy_setopt(curl_, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, CURL_SSLVERSION_TLSv1_2));

It was disabled on Ubuntu 16.04 for security reasons, see more here.