Wan-Teh Chang wrote:
>
> "Nelson B. Bolyard" wrote:
> >
> > Inadequacies of SSL_SecurityStatus:
> >
> > 7. Returns a malloced ASCII string to identify the symmetric cipher used.
> >
> > - These strings are not localized (although it's not clear how to
> > localize TLAs like RC2 and DES).
>
> These strings don't need to be translated. They are morally equivalent
> to the SSL3CipherAlgorithm enumeration constants in your proposal below.
> But I agree that it's better to return numeric values as it saves a
> malloc call and a free call (by the caller).
Since the maximum size of each of these strings is known, and small,
perhaps the struct should contain one or more short arrays of char.
> Should we make the interface flexible enough so that we can add
> new members to the SSLChannelInfo structure in a future version?
How about if I add a small array of reserved PRUint32s at the end,
and maybe a length field at the beginning.
I'll post a revised proposal here shortly.
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Nelson Bolyard Sun / Netscape Alliance
