BIOsconnect(3) OpenSSL BIOsconnect(3)

NAME
       BIOsconnect, BIOsetconnhostname, BIOsetconnport,
       BIOsetconnip, BIOsetconnintport, BIOgetconnhostname,
       BIOgetconnport, BIOgetconnip, BIOgetconnintport,
       BIOsetnbio, BIOdoconnect - connect BIO

SYNOPSIS
        #include 

        BIOMETHOD * BIOsconnect(void);

        BIO *BIOnewconnect(char *name);

        long BIOsetconnhostname(BIO *b, char *name);
        long BIOsetconnport(BIO *b, char *port);
        long BIOsetconnip(BIO *b, char *ip);
        long BIOsetconnintport(BIO *b, char *port);
        char *BIOgetconnhostname(BIO *b);
        char *BIOgetconnport(BIO *b);
        char *BIOgetconnip(BIO *b, dummy);
        long BIOgetconnintport(BIO *b, int port);

        long BIOsetnbio(BIO *b, long n);

        int BIOdoconnect(BIO *b);

DESCRIPTION
       BIOsconnect() returns the connect BIO method. This is a wrapper round
       the platform's TCP/IP socket connection routines.

       Using connect BIOs, TCP/IP connections can be made and data transferred
       using only BIO routines. In this way any platform specific operations
       are hidden by the BIO abstraction.

       Read and write operations on a connect BIO will perform I/O on the
       underlying connection. If no connection is established and the port and
       hostname (see below) is set up properly then a connection is
       established first.

       Connect BIOs support BIOputs() but not BIOgets().

       If the close flag is set on a connect BIO then any active connection is
       shutdown and the socket closed when the BIO is freed.

       Calling BIOreset() on a connect BIO will close any active connection
       and reset the BIO into a state where it can connect to the same host
       again.

       BIOgetfd() places the underlying socket in cc if it is not NULL, it
       also returns the socket . If cc is not NULL it should be of type (int
       *).

       BIOsetconnhostname() uses the string nnaammee to set the hostname.  The
       hostname can be an IP address. The hostname can also include the port
       in the form hostname:port . It is also acceptable to use the form
       "hostname/any/other/path" or "hostname:port/any/other/path".

       BIOsetconnport() sets the port to ppoorrtt. ppoorrtt can be the numerical
       form or a string such as "http". A string will be looked up first using
       getservbyname() on the host platform but if that fails a standard table
       of port names will be used. Currently the list is http, telnet, socks,
       https, ssl, ftp, gopher and wais.

       BIOsetconnip() sets the IP address to iipp using binary form, that is
       four bytes specifying the IP address in big-endian form.

       BIOsetconnintport() sets the port using ppoorrtt. ppoorrtt should be of
       type (int *).

       BIOgetconnhostname() returns the hostname of the connect BIO or NULL
       if the BIO is initialized but no hostname is set.  This return value is
       an internal pointer which should not be modified.

       BIOgetconnport() returns the port as a string.

       BIOgetconnip() returns the IP address in binary form.

       BIOgetconnintport() returns the port as an int.

       BIOsetnbio() sets the non blocking I/O flag to nn. If nn is zero then
       blocking I/O is set. If nn is 1 then non blocking I/O is set. Blocking
       I/O is the default. The call to BIOsetnbio() should be made before
       the connection is established because non blocking I/O is set during
       the connect process.

       BIOnewconnect() combines BIOnew() and BIOsetconnhostname() into a
       single call: that is it creates a new connect BIO with nnaammee.

       BIOdoconnect() attempts to connect the supplied BIO. It returns 1 if
       the connection was established successfully. A zero or negative value
       is returned if the connection could not be established, the call
       BIOshouldretry() should be used for non blocking connect BIOs to
       determine if the call should be retried.

NNOOTTEESS
       If blocking I/O is set then a non positive return value from any I/O
       call is caused by an error condition, although a zero return will
       normally mean that the connection was closed.

       If the port name is supplied as part of the host name then this will
       override any value set with BIOsetconnport(). This may be
       undesirable if the application does not wish to allow connection to
       arbitrary ports. This can be avoided by checking for the presence of
       the ':' character in the passed hostname and either indicating an error
       or truncating the string at that point.

       The values returned by BIOgetconnhostname(), BIOgetconnport(),
       BIOgetconnip() and BIOgetconnintport() are updated when a
       connection attempt is made. Before any connection attempt the values
       returned are those set by the application itself.

       Applications do not have to call BIOdoconnect() but may wish to do so
       to separate the connection process from other I/O processing.

       If non blocking I/O is set then retries will be requested as
       appropriate.

       It addition to BIOshouldread() and BIOshouldwrite() it is also
       possible for BIOshouldiospecial() to be true during the initial
       connection process with the reason BIORRCONNECT. If this is returned
       then this is an indication that a connection attempt would block, the
       application should then take appropriate action to wait until the
       underlying socket has connected and retry the call.

       BIOsetconnhostname(), BIOsetconnport(), BIOsetconnip(),
       BIOsetconnintport(), BIOgetconnhostname(), BIOgetconnport(),
       BIOgetconnip(), BIOgetconnintport(), BIOsetnbio() and
       BIOdoconnect() are macros.

RETURN VALUES
       BIOsconnect() returns the connect BIO method.

       BIOgetfd() returns the socket or -1 if the BIO has not been
       initialized.

       BIOsetconnhostname(), BIOsetconnport(), BIOsetconnip() and
       BIOsetconnintport() always return 1.

       BIOgetconnhostname() returns the connected hostname or NULL is none
       was set.

       BIOgetconnport() returns a string representing the connected port or
       NULL if not set.

       BIOgetconnip() returns a pointer to the connected IP address in
       binary form or all zeros if not set.

       BIOgetconnintport() returns the connected port or 0 if none was
       set.

       BIOsetnbio() always returns 1.

       BIOdoconnect() returns 1 if the connection was successfully
       established and 0 or -1 if the connection failed.

EEXXAAMMPPLLEE
       This is example connects to a webserver on the local host and attempts
       to retrieve a page and copy the result to standard output.

        BIO *cbio, *out;
        int len;
        char tmpbuf[1024];
        ERRloadcryptostrings();
        cbio = BIOnewconnect("localhost:http");
        out = BIOnewfp(stdout, BIONOCLOSE);
        if(BIOdoconnect(cbio) <= 0) {
               fprintf(stderr, "Error connecting to server\n");
               ERRprinterrorsfp(stderr);
               /* whatever ... */
               }
        BIOputs(cbio, "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n");
        for(;;) {
               len = BIOread(cbio, tmpbuf, 1024);
               if(len <= 0) break;
               BIOwrite(out, tmpbuf, len);
        }
        BIOfree(cbio);
        BIOfree(out);

SEE ALSO
       TBA



0.9.7l                            2000-10-19                  BIOsconnect(3)