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libcurl-NSS built Imap with tls :SSL CA cert (path? access rights?) windows

I am currently trying to make an imap client with libcurl on a windows application. I am using a prebuilt version of libCurl built with NSS support but no OpenSSL support ( that was decided by an higher up), and when I try to connect to my server with the URL imaps://serveraddress/inbox, with CURLOPT_USE_SSL set to CURLUSESSL_ALL, and CURLOPT_CAINFO to my certificate nickname in cert8.db I get 

* Trying servAdress...
* TCP_NODELAY set
Connected to servAdress (servAdress) port portn(#0)
WARNING: failed to load NSS PEM library libnsspem.so. Using OpenSSL PEM certificates will not work.
CAfile: certname
CApath: none
    *Closing connection 0
curl_easy_perform() failed: Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?)

I tried setting CURLOPT_SSLCERT to my certName instead I get the same error except that line is added :

* Initializing NSS with certpath: sql:C:\Users\mlegros\SSL_DB\

my question is is there a way to use NSS db Certificate with imap in libcurl?

also is it normal that a windows dll try to load a .so file (it is a linux format if I am not mistaken)?

ps: here are my version info

Hope you can help me.

Solution

  • So the problem was within libcurl

    the libraries name are hard-coded with the linux name and if libnssckbi is not loaded we cannot load another certificate the second part as been modified according to this https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3016.

    a quickfix if you don't want to recompile libcurl is to rename nssckbi.dll to libnssckbi.so