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| author | Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de> | 2022-01-17 15:31:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> | 2022-01-20 11:16:31 +0100 |
| commit | ca048994ae1431965a068b17e1f17afa2345e1f5 (patch) | |
| tree | e538043bc3eb1007b69cd8af023274510b5c5ba5 | |
| parent | 078439d78d1d1435f0ebaf97819daa38a8c81ad5 (diff) | |
Clarify flags argument of X509_check_ip
Because no supported flag affects the behavior of X509_check_ip, the
flags argument currently has no effect.
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/17536)
(cherry picked from commit 2d280fe016a98b57d488f42fd3941bcd61407c5a)
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/X509_check_host.pod | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/X509_check_host.pod b/doc/man3/X509_check_host.pod index 9002fb22e6..1edf725a51 100644 --- a/doc/man3/X509_check_host.pod +++ b/doc/man3/X509_check_host.pod @@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ X509_check_ip() checks if the certificate matches a specified IPv4 or IPv6 address. The B<address> array is in binary format, in network byte order. The length is either 4 (IPv4) or 16 (IPv6). Only explicitly marked addresses in the certificates are considered; IP -addresses stored in DNS names and Common Names are ignored. +addresses stored in DNS names and Common Names are ignored. There are +currently no B<flags> that would affect the behavior of this call. X509_check_ip_asc() is similar, except that the NUL-terminated string B<address> is first converted to the internal representation. |