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diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml index e3a3fc27f2..43c69ba377 100644 --- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml +++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_app.xml @@ -22,66 +22,60 @@ </legalnotice> <title>ssl</title> + <prepared></prepared> + <docno></docno> + <date></date> + <rev></rev> <file>ssl_app.sgml</file> </header> <app>ssl</app> - <appsummary>The SSL application provides secure communication over + <appsummary>The ssl application provides secure communication over sockets.</appsummary> + <description></description> <section> <title>DEPENDENCIES</title> - <p>The ssl application uses the Erlang applications public_key and - crypto to handle public keys and encryption, hence these - applications needs to be loaded for the ssl application to work. In - an embedded environment that means they need to be started with - application:start/[1,2] before the ssl application is started. - </p> + <p>The <c>ssl</c> application uses the <c>public_key</c> and + <c>crypto</c> application to handle public keys and encryption, hence + these applications must be loaded for the <c>ssl</c> application to work. + In an embedded environment this means they must be started with + <c>application:start/[1,2]</c> before the <c>ssl</c> application is + started.</p> </section> <section> - <title>ENVIRONMENT</title> - <p>The following application environment configuration parameters - are defined for the SSL application. See <seealso - marker="kernel:application">application(3)</seealso>for more - information about configuration parameters. - </p> - <p>Note that the environment parameters can be set on the command line, - for instance,</p> - <p><c>erl ... -ssl protocol_version '[sslv3, tlsv1]' ...</c>. - </p> + <title>CONFIGURATION</title> + <p>The application environment configuration parameters in this section + are defined for the <c>ssl</c> application. For more information + about configuration parameters, see the + <seealso marker="kernel:application">application(3)</seealso> + manual page in <c>kernel</c>.</p> + + <p>The environment parameters can be set on the command line, + for example:</p> + + <p><c>erl -ssl protocol_version "['tlsv1.2', 'tlsv1.1']"</c></p> + <taglist> - <tag><c><![CDATA[protocol_version = [sslv3|tlsv1] <optional>]]></c>.</tag> - <item> - <p>Protocol that will be supported by started clients and - servers. If this option is not set it will default to all - protocols currently supported by the erlang ssl application. - Note that this option may be overridden by the version option - to ssl:connect/[2,3] and ssl:listen/2. - </p> - </item> + <tag><c><![CDATA[protocol_version = <seealso marker="kernel:error_logger">ssl:protocol()</seealso> <optional>]]></c>.</tag> + <item><p>Protocol supported by started clients and + servers. If this option is not set, it defaults to all + protocols currently supported by the <c>ssl</c> application. + This option can be overridden by the version option + to <c>ssl:connect/[2,3]</c> and <c>ssl:listen/2</c>.</p></item> <tag><c><![CDATA[session_lifetime = integer() <optional>]]></c></tag> - <item> - <p>The lifetime of session data in seconds. - </p> - </item> + <item><p>Lifetime of the session data in seconds.</p></item> - <tag><c><![CDATA[session_cb = atom() <optional>]]></c></tag> - <item> - <p> - Name of session cache callback module that implements - the ssl_session_cache_api behavior, defaults to - ssl_session_cache.erl. - </p> - </item> + <tag><c><![CDATA[session_cb = atom() <optional>]]></c></tag> + <item><p>Name of the session cache callback module that implements + the <c>ssl_session_cache_api</c> behavior. Defaults to + <c>ssl_session_cache.erl</c>.</p></item> <tag><c><![CDATA[session_cb_init_args = proplist:proplist() <optional>]]></c></tag> - <item> - <p> - List of additional user defined arguments to the init function in session cache - callback module, defaults to []. - </p> - </item> + + <item><p>List of extra user-defined arguments to the <c>init</c> function + in the session cache callback module. Defaults to <c>[]</c>.</p></item> <tag><c><![CDATA[ssl_pem_cache_clean = integer() <optional>]]></c></tag> <item> @@ -96,6 +90,11 @@ </section> <section> + <title>ERROR LOGGER AND EVENT HANDLERS</title> + <p>The <c>ssl</c> applications uses the default <seealso marker="kernel:error_logger">OTP error logger</seealso> to log unexpected errors and TLS alerts. The logging of TLS alerts may be turned off with the <c>log_alert</c> option. </p> + </section> + + <section> <title>SEE ALSO</title> <p><seealso marker="kernel:application">application(3)</seealso></p> </section> |