| libcurl with NSS |
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| Author: Daniel Stenberg |
| 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 |
| --without-ssl --with-nss. |
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| The source code in lib/nss.c currently cause a compiler warning due to the |
| lack of a prototype. The prototype is provided by the public header provided |
| by NSS called "base64.h". But since we use a private header in libcurl named |
| 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 |
| files. Instead different distros have put them in /usr/include/nss and |
| /usr/include/nss3 etc. |
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| * The pkg-config output for NSS provides a full -I path to the nss include dir, |
| so we cannot #include <nss/base64.h> or <nss3/base64.h>. This too may be due |
| 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 |
| behaves out-of-box but this wouldn't even build - complaining on missing |
| files that aren't included in the tarball. The tarball doesn't even include |
| 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 |
| the future, but I hope we can work them out somehow along the way. |
