How to enforce definite length encoding with CMS in NSS?

I am trying to get NSS's CMS encoder to encode with DER, but the folks as mozilla have apparently only worried about BER encoding (as far as I can tell.) I am able to get definite encoding with primitive types, but all constructed types have indefinite encoding.

Code I am currently using (with NSS-3.12.7):

/* Create memory pool (aka an arena.) */
  PLArenaPool * arena = PORT_NewArena(4096);

  /* Create the CMS Message object */
  fprintf(stderr, "Create the CMS Message object\n");
  NSSCMSMessage * cmsMessage = NSS_CMSMessage_Create(arena);
  NSSCMSContentInfo * cinfo = NSS_CMSMessage_GetContentInfo(cmsMessage);

  /* Create a DigestedData object who's parent is cmsMessage */
  fprintf(stderr, "Create a DigestedData object who's parent is cmsMessage\n");
  SECAlgorithmID * id = CreateDigestAlgorithmID(arena, SEC_OID_SHA1);
  NSSCMSDigestedData * digestedData =
    NSS_CMSDigestedData_Create(cmsMessage, id);
  NSSCMSContentInfo * dcinfo =
    NSS_CMSDigestedData_GetContentInfo(digestedData);

  /* Tell the DigestedData object to include the content (not detached.) */
  fprintf(stderr, "Tell the DigestedData object to include the content (Length: %d)\n", in_len);
  SECItem * in_data = CreateSECItemString(arena, in, in_len);
  NSS_CMSContentInfo_SetContent_Data(cmsMessage, dcinfo, in_data, PR_FALSE);

  /* Put digestedData into cmsMessage's contentInfo section */
  fprintf(stderr, "Put digestedData into cmsMessage's contentInfo section\n");
  NSS_CMSContentInfo_SetContent_DigestedData(cmsMessage, cinfo, digestedData);

  /* Encode input data to DER format with following parameters */
  fprintf(stderr, "Encode input data to DER format\n");
  SECItem * encodedOutput = (SECItem*)PORT_ArenaZAlloc(arena, sizeof(SECItem));

  NSSCMSEncoderContext * ecx =
    NSS_CMSEncoder_Start(cmsMessage, NULL, NULL, encodedOutput, arena,
      NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
  fprintf(stderr, "NSS_CMSEncoder_Update\n");
  NSS_CMSEncoder_Update(ecx, NULL, 0);
  fprintf(stderr, "NSS_CMSEncoder_Finish\n");
  NSS_CMSEncoder_Finish(ecx);

Any help appreciated, Chenz

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