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authorPauli <paul.dale@oracle.com>2019-10-28 22:16:50 +1000
committerPauli <paul.dale@oracle.com>2019-10-28 22:16:50 +1000
commit2d3c5ee161627ebc31dd311f3361bcb088b36542 (patch)
treef9c82feb39078f1bdadc1d4d14b38b0819719186 /doc
parent465a58b117d5a85623f3998d6fbf2fe8712a5604 (diff)
Clarify the description of the NULL argument in SSL_set1_host().
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10253)
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-rw-r--r--doc/man3/SSL_set1_host.pod4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/SSL_set1_host.pod b/doc/man3/SSL_set1_host.pod
index d05127deaa..14cf72f4c6 100644
--- a/doc/man3/SSL_set1_host.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/SSL_set1_host.pod
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ SSL server verification parameters
These functions configure server hostname checks in the SSL client.
SSL_set1_host() sets the expected DNS hostname to B<name> clearing
-any previously specified hostname. If B<name> is NULL,
-or the empty string the list of hostnames is cleared, and name
+any previously specified hostname. If B<name> is NULL
+or the empty string, the list of hostnames is cleared and name
checks are not performed on the peer certificate. When a non-empty
B<name> is specified, certificate verification automatically checks
the peer hostname via L<X509_check_host(3)> with B<flags> as specified