Difference between revisions of "BIO"
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implementation of those bio are within bio/bss_xxx.c bss stading for Bio Source Sink | implementation of those bio are within bio/bss_xxx.c bss stading for Bio Source Sink | ||
| − | == Combining Filters and Source Sink | + | == Combining Filters and Source Sink BIOs == |
* [[Manual:BIO_push(3)]] | * [[Manual:BIO_push(3)]] | ||
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will connect tail at end of local_head chain. | will connect tail at end of local_head chain. | ||
| − | WARNING BIO_push will never fail, but can | + | WARNING BIO_push will never fail, but can create invalid chains. |
Revision as of 21:31, 31 October 2014
A BIO is an I/O stream abstraction; essentially OpenSSL's answer to the C library's FILE *. OpenSSL comes with a number of useful BIO types predefined, or you can create your own.
BIOs come in two flavors: source/sink, or filter. BIOs can be chained together. Each chain always has exactly one source/sink, but can have any number (zero or more) of filters.
Reading from a BIO can be done with Manual:BIO_read(3) and BIO_gets.
Writing to a BIO can be done with BIO_write, BIO_puts, BIO_printf, and BIO_vprintf.
Filter BIOs
- Manual:BIO_f_base64(3)
- Manual:BIO_f_buffer(3)
- Manual:BIO_f_cipher(3)
- Manual:BIO_f_md(3)
- Manual:BIO_f_ssl(3)
Source/sink BIOs
- Manual:BIO_s_accept(3)
- Manual:BIO_s_bio(3)
- Manual:BIO_s_connect(3)
- Manual:BIO_s_fd(3)
- Manual:BIO_s_file(3)
- Manual:BIO_s_mem(3)
- Manual:BIO_s_null(3)
- Manual:BIO_s_socket(3)
implementation of those bio are within bio/bss_xxx.c bss stading for Bio Source Sink
Combining Filters and Source Sink BIOs
new_head = BIO_push(BIO * local_head, BIO * tail)
will connect tail at end of local_head chain.
WARNING BIO_push will never fail, but can create invalid chains.
