So, back to the question of libldap's TLS support... The alternate code in HEAD allows multiple TLS implementations to be used at once. The idea here was that a single libldap binary would be able to coexist with multiple apps even if they explicitly used different TLS libraries themselves. In practice I'm not sure that's so important, since probably few apps are aware enough to even make that choice. The other downside of this approach is that the meaning of SSL and SSL_CTX handles in libldap changed (they had to be wrapped so we could insert a tag identifying which implementation went with which handle).
One possibility here is to preserve the old TLS options for OpenSSL only, and make them fail on the other implementations, and introduce new TLS options just for manipulating the generic handles.
Another choice here is to keep the modular layout but still only support one implementation at a time, chosen at compile time. Then we don't need the identifying tag in each session and context handle.
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Howard Chu wrote:
So, back to the question of libldap's TLS support... The alternate code in HEAD allows multiple TLS implementations to be used at once. The idea here was that a single libldap binary would be able to coexist with multiple apps even if they explicitly used different TLS libraries themselves. In practice I'm not sure that's so important, since probably few apps are aware enough to even make that choice. The other downside of this approach is that the meaning of SSL and SSL_CTX handles in libldap changed (they had to be wrapped so we could insert a tag identifying which implementation went with which handle).
One possibility here is to preserve the old TLS options for OpenSSL only, and make them fail on the other implementations, and introduce new TLS options just for manipulating the generic handles.
Another choice here is to keep the modular layout but still only support one implementation at a time, chosen at compile time. Then we don't need the identifying tag in each session and context handle.
I favor the second option.
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