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1=pod
2
3=head1 NAME
4
5BIO_ADDR, BIO_ADDR_new, BIO_ADDR_clear, BIO_ADDR_free, BIO_ADDR_rawmake,
6BIO_ADDR_family, BIO_ADDR_rawaddress, BIO_ADDR_rawport,
7BIO_ADDR_hostname_string, BIO_ADDR_service_string,
8BIO_ADDR_path_string - BIO_ADDR routines
9
10=head1 SYNOPSIS
11
12 #include <sys/types.h>
13 #include <openssl/bio.h>
14
15 typedef union bio_addr_st BIO_ADDR;
16
17 BIO_ADDR *BIO_ADDR_new(void);
18 void BIO_ADDR_free(BIO_ADDR *);
19 void BIO_ADDR_clear(BIO_ADDR *ap);
20 int BIO_ADDR_rawmake(BIO_ADDR *ap, int family,
21                      const void *where, size_t wherelen, unsigned short port);
22 int BIO_ADDR_family(const BIO_ADDR *ap);
23 int BIO_ADDR_rawaddress(const BIO_ADDR *ap, void *p, size_t *l);
24 unsigned short BIO_ADDR_rawport(const BIO_ADDR *ap);
25 char *BIO_ADDR_hostname_string(const BIO_ADDR *ap, int numeric);
26 char *BIO_ADDR_service_string(const BIO_ADDR *ap, int numeric);
27 char *BIO_ADDR_path_string(const BIO_ADDR *ap);
28
29=head1 DESCRIPTION
30
31The B<BIO_ADDR> type is a wrapper around all types of socket
32addresses that OpenSSL deals with, currently transparently
33supporting AF_INET, AF_INET6 and AF_UNIX according to what's
34available on the platform at hand.
35
36BIO_ADDR_new() creates a new unfilled B<BIO_ADDR>, to be used
37with routines that will fill it with information, such as
38BIO_accept_ex().
39
40BIO_ADDR_free() frees a B<BIO_ADDR> created with BIO_ADDR_new().
41
42BIO_ADDR_clear() clears any data held within the provided B<BIO_ADDR> and sets
43it back to an uninitialised state.
44
45BIO_ADDR_rawmake() takes a protocol B<family>, a byte array of
46size B<wherelen> with an address in network byte order pointed at
47by B<where> and a port number in network byte order in B<port> (except
48for the B<AF_UNIX> protocol family, where B<port> is meaningless and
49therefore ignored) and populates the given B<BIO_ADDR> with them.
50In case this creates a B<AF_UNIX> B<BIO_ADDR>, B<wherelen> is expected
51to be the length of the path string (not including the terminating
52NUL, such as the result of a call to strlen()).
53I<Read on about the addresses in L</RAW ADDRESSES> below>.
54
55BIO_ADDR_family() returns the protocol family of the given
56B<BIO_ADDR>.  The possible non-error results are one of the
57constants AF_INET, AF_INET6 and AF_UNIX. It will also return AF_UNSPEC if the
58BIO_ADDR has not been initialised.
59
60BIO_ADDR_rawaddress() will write the raw address of the given
61B<BIO_ADDR> in the area pointed at by B<p> if B<p> is non-NULL,
62and will set B<*l> to be the amount of bytes the raw address
63takes up if B<l> is non-NULL.
64A technique to only find out the size of the address is a call
65with B<p> set to B<NULL>.  The raw address will be in network byte
66order, most significant byte first.
67In case this is a B<AF_UNIX> B<BIO_ADDR>, B<l> gets the length of the
68path string (not including the terminating NUL, such as the result of
69a call to strlen()).
70I<Read on about the addresses in L</RAW ADDRESSES> below>.
71
72BIO_ADDR_rawport() returns the raw port of the given B<BIO_ADDR>.
73The raw port will be in network byte order.
74
75BIO_ADDR_hostname_string() returns a character string with the
76hostname of the given B<BIO_ADDR>.  If B<numeric> is 1, the string
77will contain the numerical form of the address.  This only works for
78B<BIO_ADDR> of the protocol families AF_INET and AF_INET6.  The
79returned string has been allocated on the heap and must be freed
80with OPENSSL_free().
81
82BIO_ADDR_service_string() returns a character string with the
83service name of the port of the given B<BIO_ADDR>.  If B<numeric>
84is 1, the string will contain the port number.  This only works
85for B<BIO_ADDR> of the protocol families AF_INET and AF_INET6.  The
86returned string has been allocated on the heap and must be freed
87with OPENSSL_free().
88
89BIO_ADDR_path_string() returns a character string with the path
90of the given B<BIO_ADDR>.  This only works for B<BIO_ADDR> of the
91protocol family AF_UNIX.  The returned string has been allocated
92on the heap and must be freed with OPENSSL_free().
93
94=head1 RAW ADDRESSES
95
96Both BIO_ADDR_rawmake() and BIO_ADDR_rawaddress() take a pointer to a
97network byte order address of a specific site.  Internally, those are
98treated as a pointer to B<struct in_addr> (for B<AF_INET>), B<struct
99in6_addr> (for B<AF_INET6>) or B<char *> (for B<AF_UNIX>), all
100depending on the protocol family the address is for.
101
102=head1 RETURN VALUES
103
104The string producing functions BIO_ADDR_hostname_string(),
105BIO_ADDR_service_string() and BIO_ADDR_path_string() will
106return B<NULL> on error and leave an error indication on the
107OpenSSL error stack.
108
109All other functions described here return 0 or B<NULL> when the
110information they should return isn't available.
111
112=head1 SEE ALSO
113
114L<BIO_connect(3)>, L<BIO_s_connect(3)>
115
116=head1 COPYRIGHT
117
118Copyright 2016-2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
119
120Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License").  You may not use
121this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy
122in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
123L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
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