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authorSimon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>2007-02-12 13:20:45 +0000
committerSimon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>2007-02-12 13:20:45 +0000
commit946dce1d8b0ea2a29dffa29f78de2d0cbec1b5ad (patch)
treea0f3670eafa796a79020d0b6b2dea484bc4bb63e /lib
parent80aeed102f1a2ca1618b4150187a978de4a9db55 (diff)
downloadgnutls-946dce1d8b0ea2a29dffa29f78de2d0cbec1b5ad.tar.gz
Doc fix.
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-rw-r--r--lib/x509/x509.c5
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diff --git a/lib/x509/x509.c b/lib/x509/x509.c
index b4a9686d1e..0b5096ca7c 100644
--- a/lib/x509/x509.c
+++ b/lib/x509/x509.c
@@ -1122,6 +1122,11 @@ get_subject_alt_name (gnutls_x509_crt_t cert,
* the corresponding OID and the "virtual" SAN types (e.g.,
* %GNUTLS_SAN_OTHERNAME_XMPP).
*
+ * If an otherName OID is known, the data will be decoded. Otherwise
+ * the returned data will be DER encoded, and you will have to decode
+ * it yourself. Currently, only the RFC 3920 id-on-xmppAddr SAN is
+ * recognized.
+ *
* Returns the alternative subject name type on success. The type is
* one of the enumerated gnutls_x509_subject_alt_name_t. It will
* return %GNUTLS_E_SHORT_MEMORY_BUFFER if @ret_size is not large