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34 lines
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libcurl with NSS
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Author: Daniel Stenberg
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Date: June 24, 2008
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NSS home => http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
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libcurl can be built to use the NSS libraries for SSL/TLS. Invoke configure
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--without-ssl --with-nss.
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The source code in lib/nss.c currently cause a compiler warning due to the
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lack of a prototype. The prototype is provided by the public header provided
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by NSS called "base64.h". But since we use a private header in libcurl named
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identically, we cannot include the NSS one.
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This problem persists because:
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* NSS doesn't use a properly established separate subdir for their include
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files. Instead different distros have put them in /usr/include/nss and
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/usr/include/nss3 etc.
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* The pkg-config output for NSS provides a full -I path to the nss include dir,
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so we cannot #include <nss/base64.h> or <nss3/base64.h>. This too may be due
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to how distros do it.
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* I tried getting the (all new in June 2008) NSS 3.12 tarball to check how it
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behaves out-of-box but this wouldn't even build - complaining on missing
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files that aren't included in the tarball. The tarball doesn't even include
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build instuctions but you must hunt them down on their web site.
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Due to these design problems we may of course get further similar problems in
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the future, but I hope we can work them out somehow along the way.
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