openssl/doc/man3/SSL_CTX_config.pod
Dr. Matthias St. Pierre df75c2bfcd man: harmonize the various formulations in the HISTORY sections
While stereotyped repetitions are frowned upon in literature, they
serve a useful purpose in manual pages, because it is easier for
the user to find certain information if it is always presented in
the same way. For that reason, this commit harmonizes the varying
formulations in the HISTORY section about which functions, flags,
etc. were added in which OpenSSL version.

It also attempts to make the pod files more grep friendly by
avoiding to insert line breaks between the symbol names and the
corresponding version number in which they were introduced
(wherever possible). Some punctuation and typographical errors
were fixed on the way.

Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7854)
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=pod
=head1 NAME
SSL_CTX_config, SSL_config - configure SSL_CTX or SSL structure
=head1 SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/ssl.h>
int SSL_CTX_config(SSL_CTX *ctx, const char *name);
int SSL_config(SSL *s, const char *name);
=head1 DESCRIPTION
The functions SSL_CTX_config() and SSL_config() configure an B<SSL_CTX> or
B<SSL> structure using the configuration B<name>.
=head1 NOTES
By calling SSL_CTX_config() or SSL_config() an application can perform many
complex tasks based on the contents of the configuration file: greatly
simplifying application configuration code. A degree of future proofing
can also be achieved: an application can support configuration features
in newer versions of OpenSSL automatically.
A configuration file must have been previously loaded, for example using
CONF_modules_load_file(). See L<config(5)> for details of the configuration
file syntax.
=head1 RETURN VALUES
SSL_CTX_config() and SSL_config() return 1 for success or 0 if an error
occurred.
=head1 EXAMPLE
If the file "config.cnf" contains the following:
testapp = test_sect
[test_sect]
# list of configuration modules
ssl_conf = ssl_sect
[ssl_sect]
server = server_section
[server_section]
RSA.Certificate = server-rsa.pem
ECDSA.Certificate = server-ecdsa.pem
Ciphers = ALL:!RC4
An application could call:
if (CONF_modules_load_file("config.cnf", "testapp", 0) <= 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error processing config file\n");
goto err;
}
ctx = SSL_CTX_new(TLS_server_method());
if (SSL_CTX_config(ctx, "server") == 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error configuring server.\n");
goto err;
}
In this example two certificates and the cipher list are configured without
the need for any additional application code.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<config(5)>,
L<SSL_CONF_cmd(3)>,
L<CONF_modules_load_file(3)>
=head1 HISTORY
The SSL_CTX_config() and SSL_config() functions were added in OpenSSL 1.1.0.
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2015-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use
this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
=cut