149013 - LDAP certificate fetching should work with LDAP directory authentication

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 332483

(MailNews Core :: Security: S/MIME, enhancement)

Description

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

Bug 135778 implements authentication against an LDAP directory.
Cert fetching for retrieving email recipient certificates needs do the same.

Dan, you said, this might be rather easy to do. But I see that in 135778 you do
a lot of work to implement authentication prompts etc. If cert fetching has its
own connection, would it need to do all the same?

Would it be more clever, to avoid having to repeat that work, and just reuse the
connection that you already opened for recipient's lookup?

Comment 1

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

It would also need to use an nsIAuthPrompt to get the password.  However, this
really is pretty straightforward.  As far as reusing a connection goes, I assume
you mean autocomplete.  But autocomplete can be turned off in the preferences,
so we can't count on that.

Comment 2

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Also, as far as connection caching goes, there is LDAP Service code in the tree
which is intended to do connection caching.  Once that gets finished (assuming
that ever happens), all the LDAP XPCOM clients would be changed to use the
service to get their connections.

Comment 3

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

*** Bug 195398 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 332483 ***