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authorIngela Anderton Andin <[email protected]>2015-02-02 14:15:15 +0100
committerIngela Anderton Andin <[email protected]>2015-02-06 12:23:13 +0100
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ssl: Improve PEM cache by validating entries
The PEM cache is now validated by a background process, instead of always keeping it if it is small enough and clearing it otherwhiss. That strategy required that small caches where cleared by API function if a file changes on disk. However document the clearing API function as it can still be usefull.
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml
index 39b9b70579..249fee5760 100644
--- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml
+++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
is supplied it will override the certfile option.</item>
<tag>{certfile, path()}</tag>
- <item>Path to a file containing the user's certificate.</item>
+ <item>Path to a file containing the user's PEM encoded certificate.</item>
<tag>{key, {'RSAPrivateKey'| 'DSAPrivateKey' | 'ECPrivateKey' |'PrivateKeyInfo', der_encoded()}}</tag>
<item> The DER encoded users private key. If this option
@@ -550,7 +550,19 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) ->
</p>
</desc>
</func>
-
+
+ <func>
+ <name>clear_pem_cache() -> ok </name>
+ <fsummary> Clears the pem cache</fsummary>
+
+ <desc><p>PEM files, used by ssl API-functions, are cached. The
+ cache is regularly checked to see if any cache entries should be
+ invalidated, however this function provides a way to
+ unconditionally clear the whole cache.
+ </p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
<func>
<name>connect(Socket, SslOptions) -> </name>
<name>connect(Socket, SslOptions, Timeout) -> {ok, SslSocket}