On Sat, Dec 20, 2003, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2003, Lev Walkin wrote:
>
> >
> > The PEM(3) manual page specifies a way to read a certificate in PEM format
> > from a BIO:
> >
> > === cut ===
> > Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost
> > all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
> >
> > Read a certificate in PEM format from a BIO:
> >
> > X509 *x;
> > x = PEM_read_bio(bp, NULL, 0, NULL);
> > if (x == NULL)
> > {
> > /* Error */
> > }
> > === cut ===
> >
> >
> > It is erroneous and misleading because
> > 1. There is no PEM_read_bio() function described in that manual page.
> > 2. The actual PEM_read_bio() declaration is
> >
> > int PEM_read_bio(BIO *bp, char **name, char **header, unsigned char **data,
> > long *len);
> >
>
> And
>
> 3. Applications shouldn't call PEM_read_bio() themselves.
>
> As should be apparent its a typo: it should be PEM_read_bio_X509().
>
And its now fixed. Many thanks for the report.
Steve.
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