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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/SSL_get_verify_result.pod | 7 |
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diff --git a/doc/man3/SSL_get_verify_result.pod b/doc/man3/SSL_get_verify_result.pod index ac37408748..ab13e912b1 100644 --- a/doc/man3/SSL_get_verify_result.pod +++ b/doc/man3/SSL_get_verify_result.pod @@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ of a certificate can fail because of many reasons at the same time. Only the last verification error that occurred during the processing is available from SSL_get_verify_result(). +Sometimes there can be a sequence of errors leading to the verification +failure as reported by SSL_get_verify_result(). +To get the errors, it is necessary to setup a verify callback via +L<SSL_CTX_set_verify(3)> or L<SSL_set_verify(3)> and retrieve the errors +from the error stack there, because once L<SSL_connect(3)> returns, +these errors may no longer be available. + The verification result is part of the established session and is restored when a session is reused. |