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| author | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2006-01-29 10:48:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2006-01-29 10:48:42 +0000 |
| commit | b5d5451e276ee6e25186f399659c2debc6f8bb01 (patch) | |
| tree | 1161c00b2e297e2ada44d57b1711c3fa9f4a5c42 | |
| parent | 9b1e471b4dfe72a0d45f285ef0bad943b31b9bab (diff) | |
| download | gnutls-b5d5451e276ee6e25186f399659c2debc6f8bb01.tar.gz | |
added some text about premature termination of sessions.
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/gnutls_record.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/gnutls_record.c b/lib/gnutls_record.c index b543472565..6522bc07f5 100644 --- a/lib/gnutls_record.c +++ b/lib/gnutls_record.c @@ -178,6 +178,12 @@ gnutls_transport_get_ptr2 (gnutls_session_t session, * you should wait for an EOF from the peer. * GNUTLS_SHUT_WR sends an alert containing a close request. * + * Note that not all implementations will properly terminate a TLS connection. + * Some of them, usually for performance reasons, will terminate only the + * underlying transport layer, thus causing a transmission error to the peer. + * This error cannot be distinguished from a malicious party prematurely terminating + * the session, thus this behavior is not recommended. + * * This function may also return GNUTLS_E_AGAIN or GNUTLS_E_INTERRUPTED; cf. * gnutls_record_get_direction(). * |