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@@ -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 '[sslv3, tlsv1]' ...</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>
+ <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 has no error logger or event handlers.</p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
<title>SEE ALSO</title>
<p><seealso marker="kernel:application">application(3)</seealso></p>
</section>