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authorMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>2015-11-30 16:04:51 +0000
committerMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>2015-12-27 21:59:04 +0000
commit43c34894d703e3e5c2fc03bad3a78a1cf10d8ba5 (patch)
treea5d81332af7fe75091e66371b015366bc81f32be
parent80e339fd09ca32680e0c0cbcfa40d73212ea276d (diff)
Add some documentation for the OCSP callback functions
Describe the usage of the OCSP callback functions on both the client and the server side. Reviewed-by: Viktor Dukhovni <viktor@openssl.org>
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+=pod
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_status_cb, SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_status_arg,
+SSL_set_tlsext_status_type, SSL_get_tlsext_status_ocsp_resp,
+SSL_set_tlsext_status_ocsp_resp - OCSP Certificate Status Request functions
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+ #include <openssl/tls1.h>
+
+ long SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_status_cb(SSL_CTX *ctx,
+ int (*callback)(SSL *, void *));
+ long SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_status_arg(SSL_CTX *ctx, void *arg);
+
+ long SSL_set_tlsext_status_type(SSL *s, int type);
+
+ long SSL_get_tlsext_status_ocsp_resp(ssl, unsigned char **resp);
+ long SSL_set_tlsext_status_ocsp_resp(ssl, unsigned char *resp, int len);
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+A client application may request that a server send back an OCSP status response
+(also known as OCSP stapling). To do so the client should call the
+SSL_set_tlsext_status_type() function prior to the start of the handshake.
+Currently the only supported type is B<TLSEXT_STATUSTYPE_ocsp>. This value
+should be passed in the B<type> argument. The client should additionally provide
+a callback function to decide what to do with the returned OCSP response by
+calling SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_status_cb(). The callback function should determine
+whether the returned OCSP response is acceptable or not. The callback will be
+passed as an argument the value previously set via a call to
+SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_status_arg(). Note that the callback will not be called in
+the event of a handshake where session resumption occurs (because there are no
+Certificates exchanged in such a handshake).
+
+The response returned by the server can be obtained via a call to
+SSL_get_tlsext_status_ocsp_resp(). The value B<*resp> will be updated to point
+to the OCSP response data and the return value will be the length of that data.
+Typically a callback would obtain an OCSP_RESPONSE object from this data via a
+call to the d2i_OCSP_RESPONSE() function. If the server has not provided any
+response data then B<*resp> will be NULL and the return value from
+SSL_get_tlsext_status_ocsp_resp() will be -1.
+
+A server application must also call the SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_status_cb() function
+if it wants to be able to provide clients with OCSP Certificate Status
+responses. Typically the server callback would obtain the server certificate
+that is being sent back to the client via a call to SSL_get_certificate();
+obtain the OCSP response to be sent back; and then set that response data by
+calling SSL_set_tlsext_status_ocsp_resp(). A pointer to the response data should
+be provided in the B<resp> argument, and the length of that data should be in
+the B<len> argument.
+
+=head1 RETURN VALUES
+
+The callback when used on the client side should return a negative value on
+error; 0 if the response is not acceptable (in which case the handshake will
+fail) or a positive value if it is acceptable.
+
+The callback when used on the server side should return with either
+SSL_TLSEXT_ERR_OK (meaning that the OCSP response that has been set should be
+returned), SSL_TLSEXT_ERR_NOACK (meaning that an OCSP response should not be
+returned) or SSL_TLSEXT_ERR_ALERT_FATAL (meaning that a fatal error has
+occurred).
+
+SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_status_cb(), SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_status_arg(),
+SSL_set_tlsext_status_type() and SSL_set_tlsext_status_ocsp_resp() return 0 on
+error or 1 on success.
+
+SSL_get_tlsext_status_ocsp_resp() returns the length of the OCSP response data
+or -1 if there is no OCSP response data.
+
+=cut