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authorDr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com>2021-05-01 22:04:17 +0200
committerDr. David von Oheimb <dev@ddvo.net>2021-05-14 19:24:42 +0200
commit22fe2b129922bc9322c41ce8beff1551c078c838 (patch)
tree8cb6fe44cb8baf2ec35bdd05dabd9747559ed155 /doc/man3
parent8801240bc5d5e7fe29b2635bbf9c4d45fd1b2996 (diff)
OSSL_HTTP_transfer(): Fix error reporting in case rctx->server is NULL
Also improve doc of OSSL_parse_url() and OSSL_HTTP_parse_url(). Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/15053)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man3')
-rw-r--r--doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_parse_url.pod8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_parse_url.pod b/doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_parse_url.pod
index 60589b6bf9..559ff1dd08 100644
--- a/doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_parse_url.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_parse_url.pod
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ L<openssl_user_macros(7)>:
OSSL_parse_url() parses its input string I<url> as a URL of the form
C<[scheme://][userinfo@]host[:port][/path][?query][#fragment]> and splits it up
into scheme, userinfo, host, port, path, query, and fragment components.
-The host component may be a DNS name or an IP address
+The host (or server) component may be a DNS name or an IP address
where IPv6 addresses should be enclosed in square brackets C<[> and C<]>.
The port component is optional and defaults to C<0>.
If given, it must be in decimal form. If the I<pport_num> argument is not NULL
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ If I<pssl> is not NULL, I<*pssl> is assigned 1 in case parsing was successful
and the scheme is C<https>, else 0.
The port component is optional and defaults to C<443> if the scheme is C<https>,
else C<80>.
+Note that relative paths must be given with a leading C</>,
+otherwise the first path element is interpreted as the hostname.
Calling the deprecated function OCSP_parse_url(url, host, port, path, ssl)
is equivalent to
@@ -59,7 +61,7 @@ OSSL_HTTP_parse_url(url, ssl, NULL, host, port, NULL, path, NULL, NULL).
=head1 RETURN VALUES
-OSSL_HTTP_parse_url() and OCSP_parse_url()
+OSSL_parse_url(), OSSL_HTTP_parse_url(), and OCSP_parse_url()
return 1 on success, 0 on error.
=head1 SEE ALSO
@@ -68,7 +70,7 @@ L<OSSL_HTTP_transfer(3)>
=head1 HISTORY
-OOSSL_HTTP_parse_url() was added in OpenSSL 3.0.
+OSSL_parse_url() and OSSL_HTTP_parse_url() were added in OpenSSL 3.0.
OCSP_parse_url() was deprecated in OpenSSL 3.0.
=head1 COPYRIGHT