Re: Has the time come to drop NSS?

From: Jason Proctor via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:07:35 -0800

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_at_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
>
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*Jason Proctor <jason_at_spatialinc.com>*
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spatialinc.com <https://www.spatialinc.com/>

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Received on 2022-01-31