Remove CURL share support from HTTP curl client

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    • Type: Bug
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Priority: Major - P3
    • 4.9.0, 4.2.13, 4.4.5, 4.0.24
    • Affects Version/s: 4.0.22, 4.4.3, 4.2.12
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    • Fully Compatible
    • ALL
    • v4.4, v4.2, v4.0
    • Security 2021-02-22, Security 2021-03-08
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      libcurl's share feature, which is used for a shared connection cache, is not thread safe. This is typically used to support HTTP keep-alive connections. It needs to be removed to improved the stability of the HTTP client when used by multiple threads. This only affects queryable restore. It needs to be backported to all affected versions.

      The libcurl documentation (https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_share_setopt.html) states

      Note that due to a known bug, it is not safe to share connections this way between multiple concurrent threads.

      which was added as part of https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4915.

      This was originally added for SERVER-38493 but the libcurl concurrency issues were not discovered until after SERVER-38493 was complete.

            Assignee:
            Mark Benvenuto
            Reporter:
            Mark Benvenuto
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