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#curl no longer supports the NSS TLS library: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/11459

Like 29 Jul 2023 at 21:46 | Open on mastodon.social

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Kainoa

@bagder@mastodon.social for the uninitiated, what is the NSS TLS library and why was it removed?

29 Jul 2023 at 21:47 | Open on firefish.social

Elaine 💜🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Can you explain what this means to curl users? What is NSS?

29 Jul 2023 at 21:47 | Open on pleroma.elaine.is

Kornel

@bagder The github issue doesn't give any background for this decision. I'm curious whether there's something terrible about it, or is it just some spring cleaning.

29 Jul 2023 at 21:57 | Open on mastodon.social

daniel:// stenberg://

@kornel The patch itself removed the motivation from the DEPRECATED file:

- There are few users left who use curl+NSS
- NSS has few users outside of curl as well (primarily Firefox)
- NSS is harder than ever to find documentation for
- NSS was always "best" used with Red Hat Linux when they provided additional
features on top of the regular NSS that is not shipped by the vanilla library

29 Jul 2023 at 22:01 | Open on mastodon.social

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