Dan Mosedale wrote:
> So one thing that would be helpful to those of us working on LDAP in
> the browser is the ability to get access to some of the NSS
> functionality for the LDAP C SDK to use.
>
> LDAP in the browser consists of an XPCOM wrapper around the LDAP C
> SDK, which does all the connection management for us under the hood.
> The C SDK itself uses raw or NSPR sockets to do all the work, and I'm
> told that the most recent version interacts with NSS 3.2 directly.
> Since we want to share as much code as possible, it would be really
> good not to have to link the C SDK against a second copy of NSS
> separate from PSM. So in some ideal world, it seems like the LDAP
> XPCOM wrapper would be able to ask PSM for some set of raw function
> pointers to NSS functions which could then be passed into the LDAP C
> SDK for use.
>
> Comments?
The LDAP C sdk has always used NSS. In the past, it actually linked its
own copy of NSS into its DSO/DLL. Now, in NSS 3.2, it will simply use the
NSS DSO, and no longer have its own copy.
The LDAP C SDK developer is one of NSS's main Beta testers.
>
> Dan
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