From: Rob McCool <robm@netscape.com>
Newsgroups: netscape.devs-nsapi
Subject: Re: Client SSL from a NSAPI plug-in
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 19:04:16 -0700

Vikul Khosla wrote:
> We are developing a NSAPI plug-in that needs SSL client functionality
> and were hoping to be able to use the built-in SSL libraries in the
> commerce/Enterprise servers.
> 
> Based on the SSL reference implementation, I tried calling the
> SSL_Create, SSL_Handshake, ClientCertInfo etc ... but I ran into
> unresolved references. So, either these symbols do not exist or they
> have different names in the products.
>
> Also, I looked at the NSAPI functions and there was nothing obvious
> that might address this problem ?
> 
> It seems that this may be reasonable to add to the NSAPI ? Have any
> of you have/had a similar requiremnet ? Please respond to me directly
> at vikul@ubiquity.com.

We do not currently expose the necessary hooks to the security library
that the server uses, and the API is not the SSLref API. In future
versions of the server, a new cryptographic API will be provided for you
to use, but until then you'll need to link in the SSL reference
implementation and use that.
--
Rob McCool, robm@netscape.com http://home.netscape.com/people/robm/
Stunt Programmer, Netscape Communications Corporation
It was working ten minutes ago, I swear...

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