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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().
41If the argument is NULL, nothing is done.
42
43BIO_ADDR_clear() clears any data held within the provided B<BIO_ADDR> and sets
44it back to an uninitialised state.
45
46BIO_ADDR_rawmake() takes a protocol B<family>, a byte array of
47size B<wherelen> with an address in network byte order pointed at
48by B<where> and a port number in network byte order in B<port> (except
49for the B<AF_UNIX> protocol family, where B<port> is meaningless and
50therefore ignored) and populates the given B<BIO_ADDR> with them.
51In case this creates a B<AF_UNIX> B<BIO_ADDR>, B<wherelen> is expected
52to be the length of the path string (not including the terminating
53NUL, such as the result of a call to strlen()).
54Read on about the addresses in L</RAW ADDRESSES> below.
55
56BIO_ADDR_family() returns the protocol family of the given
57B<BIO_ADDR>.  The possible non-error results are one of the
58constants AF_INET, AF_INET6 and AF_UNIX. It will also return AF_UNSPEC if the
59BIO_ADDR has not been initialised.
60
61BIO_ADDR_rawaddress() will write the raw address of the given
62B<BIO_ADDR> in the area pointed at by B<p> if B<p> is non-NULL,
63and will set B<*l> to be the amount of bytes the raw address
64takes up if B<l> is non-NULL.
65A technique to only find out the size of the address is a call
66with B<p> set to B<NULL>.  The raw address will be in network byte
67order, most significant byte first.
68In case this is a B<AF_UNIX> B<BIO_ADDR>, B<l> gets the length of the
69path string (not including the terminating NUL, such as the result of
70a call to strlen()).
71Read on about the addresses in L</RAW ADDRESSES> below.
72
73BIO_ADDR_rawport() returns the raw port of the given B<BIO_ADDR>.
74The raw port will be in network byte order.
75
76BIO_ADDR_hostname_string() returns a character string with the
77hostname of the given B<BIO_ADDR>.  If B<numeric> is 1, the string
78will contain the numerical form of the address.  This only works for
79B<BIO_ADDR> of the protocol families AF_INET and AF_INET6.  The
80returned string has been allocated on the heap and must be freed
81with OPENSSL_free().
82
83BIO_ADDR_service_string() returns a character string with the
84service name of the port of the given B<BIO_ADDR>.  If B<numeric>
85is 1, the string will contain the port number.  This only works
86for B<BIO_ADDR> of the protocol families AF_INET and AF_INET6.  The
87returned string has been allocated on the heap and must be freed
88with OPENSSL_free().
89
90BIO_ADDR_path_string() returns a character string with the path
91of the given B<BIO_ADDR>.  This only works for B<BIO_ADDR> of the
92protocol family AF_UNIX.  The returned string has been allocated
93on the heap and must be freed with OPENSSL_free().
94
95=head1 RAW ADDRESSES
96
97Both BIO_ADDR_rawmake() and BIO_ADDR_rawaddress() take a pointer to a
98network byte order address of a specific site.  Internally, those are
99treated as a pointer to B<struct in_addr> (for B<AF_INET>), B<struct
100in6_addr> (for B<AF_INET6>) or B<char *> (for B<AF_UNIX>), all
101depending on the protocol family the address is for.
102
103=head1 RETURN VALUES
104
105The string producing functions BIO_ADDR_hostname_string(),
106BIO_ADDR_service_string() and BIO_ADDR_path_string() will
107return B<NULL> on error and leave an error indication on the
108OpenSSL error stack.
109
110All other functions described here return 0 or B<NULL> when the
111information they should return isn't available.
112
113=head1 SEE ALSO
114
115L<BIO_connect(3)>, L<BIO_s_connect(3)>
116
117=head1 COPYRIGHT
118
119Copyright 2016-2024 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
120
121Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License").  You may not use
122this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy
123in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
124L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
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