Not to say one way or the other on deprecating NSS support, but the NSPR functions it calls do still have some documentation online --
https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/ PR_Recv() is documented here - https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/reference/html/priofnc.html#18943 J (spatialinc still uses NSPR) On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 23:56, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library < curl-library@lists.haxx.se> wrote: > Hello, > > This morning we got a fresh issue [1] filed that involves the NSS library. > > When I started to investigate this I ran a few google searches for some of > the > invovled functions in NSS, such as PR_Recv, only to realize that there > just is > no documentation for this to be found online anymore - anywhere. At least > my > searches fell short. (Which made me file [2]) > > This is not in itself an alarming situation for us right now, since we can > still just use it like before, but to be this is a very clear sign that > the > NSS team doesn't even bother anymore. To me, this is a clear sign they've > stopped caring and a message for us to reconsider if leaning on this leg > is a > good idea for our users. Going forward into the mist with no map is not > the > future I want. > > Is it time to drop support for NSS? > > I don't think any distribution is shipping curl build with NSS by default > anymore. I know there still are users of it, like the issue that triggered > me > into this shows, but I think most users can be transitioned over to other > TLS > backends. > > Maybe we should set a date, maybe late 2022 and if things are still as > grim-looking in NSS-land as today we then say goodbye? > > [1] = https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/8341 > [2] = https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/12471 > > -- > > / daniel.haxx.se > | Commercial curl support up to 24x7 is available! > | Private help, bug fixes, support, ports, new features > | https://curl.se/support.html > -- > Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/listinfo/curl-library > Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html > -- <https://www.spatialinc.com/> *Jason Proctor <ja...@spatialinc.com>* Platform Engineer <https://www.spatialinc.com/> spatialinc.com <https://www.spatialinc.com/>
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