Re: ldap and StartTLS ?

Nelson Bolyard wrote:
>> The problem is that those docs are hopelessly out of date.  Our
>> salvation will come in the form of Sun's contribution of their
>> up-to-date docs to Mozilla, except that Mark Craig and Gerv are going
>> around and around with the Sun lawyers over the doc licensing.  Mark
>> already has everything converted to docbook xml and it's ready to go.
> 
> OK.  Thanks for that info.  I understand you to be saying that the doc
> was for some older version of the SDK than the present one (or even
> recent ones).  This leads to a few more questions.
> 
> Regarding the current SDK, Is there a Sun URL for an equivalent page
> with more up to date info?  E.g.  docs.sun.com/<something> ?

I think so.  Anton would probably know.

> 
> Regarding the older version of the SDK to which the cite page applied,
> a) to what version(s) of the SDK did it apply?  and
> b) What is the answer to the questions below for that older version?
>> There are (at least) two possible interpretations of that:
>> a) The Mozilla LDAP C SDK ... does not support ... TLS
>> b) The Mozilla LDAP C SDK ... does not support ... StartTLS.
>>
>> Which of those interpretations is correct?
>> Or, if neither, what is the correct interpretation?
>> Or is that document just wrong and needs to be fixed?

It must be very old.  I believe mozldap has supported StartTLS since 2001.