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    <title>Using the SSL API</title>
    <file>using_ssl.xml</file>
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  <section>
    <title>General information</title>
    <p>To see relevant version information for ssl you can
    call ssl:versions/0</p>
    
    <p>To see all supported cipher suites 
    call ssl:cipher_suites/0. Note that available cipher suites
    for a connection will depend on your certificate. It is also
    possible to specify a specific cipher suite(s) that you
    want your connection to use. Default is to use the  strongest
    available.</p>

  </section>
  
  <section>
    <title>Setting up connections</title>
    
    <p>Here follows some small example of how to set up client/server connections
    using the erlang shell. The returned value of the sslsocket has been abbreviated with
    <c>[...]</c> as it can be fairly large and is opaque.</p>
    
    <section>
      <title>Minmal example</title>
      
      <note><p> The minimal setup is not the  most secure setup of ssl.</p>    
      </note>
      
      <p> Start server side</p>
      <code type="erl">1 server> ssl:start().
ok</code>
      
      <p>Create an ssl listen socket</p>
      <code type="erl">2 server> {ok, ListenSocket} =
ssl:listen(9999, [{certfile, "cert.pem"}, {keyfile, "key.pem"},{reuseaddr, true}]).
{ok,{sslsocket, [...]}}</code>
      
      <p>Do a transport accept on the ssl listen socket</p>
      <code type="erl">3 server> {ok, Socket} = ssl:transport_accept(ListenSocket).
{ok,{sslsocket, [...]}}</code>

      <p>Start client side</p>
      <code type="erl">1 client> ssl:start().
ok</code>
      
      <code type="erl">2 client> {ok, Socket} = ssl:connect("localhost", 9999,  [], infinity).
{ok,{sslsocket, [...]}}</code>
      
      <p>Do the ssl handshake</p>
      <code type="erl">4 server> ok = ssl:ssl_accept(Socket).
ok</code>
      
      <p>Send a messag over ssl</p>
      <code type="erl">5 server> ssl:send(Socket, "foo").
ok</code>
      
      <p>Flush the shell message queue to see that we got the message
      sent on the server side</p>
      <code type="erl">3 client> flush().
Shell got {ssl,{sslsocket,[...]},"foo"}
ok</code>
    </section>
    
    <section>
      <title>Upgrade example</title>
      
      <note><p> To upgrade a TCP/IP connection to an ssl connection the
      client and server have to aggre to do so. Agreement
      may be accompliced by using a protocol such the one used by HTTP
      specified in RFC 2817.</p> </note>
      
      <p>Start server side</p>
      <code type="erl">1 server> ssl:start().
ok</code>
      
      <p>Create a normal tcp listen socket</p>
      <code type="erl">2 server> {ok, ListenSocket} = gen_tcp:listen(9999, [{reuseaddr, true}]).
{ok, #Port&lt;0.475&gt;}</code>
      
      <p>Accept client connection</p>
      <code type="erl">3 server> {ok, Socket} = gen_tcp:accept(ListenSocket).
{ok, #Port&lt;0.476&gt;}</code>
      
      <p>Start client side</p>
      <code type="erl">1 client> ssl:start().
ok</code>
      
      <code type="erl">2 client> {ok, Socket} = gen_tcp:connect("localhost", 9999,  [], infinity).</code>
      
      <p>Make sure active is set to false before trying
      to upgrade a connection to an ssl connection, otherwhise
      ssl handshake messages may be deliverd to the wrong process.</p>
      <code type="erl">4 server> inet:setopts(Socket, [{active, false}]).
ok</code>
      
      <p>Do the ssl handshake.</p>
      <code type="erl">5 server> {ok, SSLSocket} = ssl:ssl_accept(Socket, [{cacertfile, "cacerts.pem"},
{certfile, "cert.pem"}, {keyfile, "key.pem"}]).
{ok,{sslsocket,[...]}}</code>
      
      <p> Upgrade to an ssl connection. Note that the client and server
      must agree upon the upgrade and the server must call
      ssl:accept/2 before the client calls ssl:connect/3.</p>
      <code type="erl">3 client>{ok, SSLSocket} = ssl:connect(Socket, [{cacertfile, "cacerts.pem"},
{certfile, "cert.pem"}, {keyfile, "key.pem"}], infinity).
{ok,{sslsocket,[...]}}</code>
      
      <p>Send a messag over ssl</p>
      <code type="erl">4 client> ssl:send(SSLSocket, "foo").
ok</code>
      
      <p>Set active true on the ssl socket</p>
      <code type="erl">4 server> ssl:setopts(SSLSocket, [{active, true}]).
ok</code>
      
      <p>Flush the shell message queue to see that we got the message
      sent on the client side</p>
      <code type="erl">5 server> flush().
Shell got {ssl,{sslsocket,[...]},"foo"}
ok</code>
    </section>
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