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| author | Ingela Anderton Andin <[email protected]> | 2014-02-24 11:22:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingela Anderton Andin <[email protected]> | 2014-03-03 11:40:02 +0100 |
| commit | cc371d0ded3c705cdbca904e0b452fdf0a500514 (patch) | |
| tree | 69854a402c7800ef90282894a01a7078e2c27adc /lib/ssl/doc/src | |
| parent | 69dbcf7808a2ac3391bb20828e882fa1011ee2f9 (diff) | |
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ssl: Improved documentation of the cacertfile option
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/ssl/doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml | 28 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml index 910dca3889..4bc1a9a644 100644 --- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml +++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <erlref> <header> <copyright> - <year>1999</year><year>2013</year> + <year>1999</year><year>2014</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -184,12 +184,6 @@ <item> The DER encoded trusted certificates. If this option is supplied it will override the cacertfile option.</item> - <tag>{cacertfile, path()}</tag> - <item>Path to file containing PEM encoded - CA certificates (trusted certificates used for verifying a peer - certificate). May be omitted if you do not want to verify - the peer.</item> - <tag>{ciphers, ciphers()}</tag> <item>The cipher suites that should be supported. The function <c>cipher_suites/0</c> can be used to find all ciphers that are @@ -354,7 +348,13 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) -> <item>Specifies if client should try to reuse sessions when possible. </item> - + + <tag>{cacertfile, path()}</tag> + <item>The path to a file containing PEM encoded CA certificates. The CA + certificates are used during server authentication and when building the + client certificate chain. + </item> + <tag>{client_preferred_next_protocols, {Precedence :: server | client, ClientPrefs :: [binary()]}}</tag> <tag>{client_preferred_next_protocols, {Precedence :: server | client, ClientPrefs :: [binary()], Default :: binary()}}</tag> <item> @@ -403,7 +403,17 @@ fun(srp, Username :: string(), UserState :: term()) -> meaning in the server than in the client.</p> <taglist> - + + <tag>{cacertfile, path()}</tag> + <item>The path to a file containing PEM encoded CA + certificates. The CA certificates are used to build the server + certificate chain, and for client authentication. Also the CAs + are used in the list of acceptable client CAs passed to the + client when a certificate is requested. May be omitted if there + is no need to verify the client and if there are not any + intermediate CAs for the server certificate. + </item> + <tag>{dh, der_encoded()}</tag> <item>The DER encoded Diffie Hellman parameters. If this option is supplied it will override the dhfile option. |