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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>
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<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 a 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 a 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<0.475>}</code>
<p>Accept client connection</p>
<code type="erl">3 server> {ok, Socket} = gen_tcp:accept(ListenSocket).
{ok, #Port<0.476>}</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 a 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 a 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>
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