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| author | Gustaf Neumann <neumann@wu-wien.ac.at> | 2020-07-17 12:31:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Dr. Matthias St. Pierre <matthias.st.pierre@ncp-e.com> | 2020-07-22 09:15:00 +0200 |
| commit | 490c87110cc1fd673604fa1b94d5538f9fd852bb (patch) | |
| tree | 3edd4a289e298a405dd7785fd1b21e81e8cd55e0 /doc/man3/X509_check_host.pod | |
| parent | bf19b64aaeeddd5463d911823f9e2c3c40091005 (diff) | |
| download | openssl-490c87110cc1fd673604fa1b94d5538f9fd852bb.tar.gz | |
Align documentation with recommendations of Linux Documentation Project
This change applies the recommendation of the Linux Documentation Project
to the documentation files of OpenSSL. Additionally, util/find-doc-nits
was updated accordingly.
The change follows a suggestion of mspncp on https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12370
and incoporates the requested changes on the pull request
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12460)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man3/X509_check_host.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/X509_check_host.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/X509_check_host.pod b/doc/man3/X509_check_host.pod index 3c4ef8b098..b541901c00 100644 --- a/doc/man3/X509_check_host.pod +++ b/doc/man3/X509_check_host.pod @@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ The validity of the certificate and its trust level has to be checked by other means. X509_check_host() checks if the certificate Subject Alternative -Name (SAN) or Subject CommonName (CN) matches the specified host -name, which must be encoded in the preferred name syntax described +Name (SAN) or Subject CommonName (CN) matches the specified hostname, +which must be encoded in the preferred name syntax described in section 3.5 of RFC 1034. By default, wildcards are supported and they match only in the left-most label; but they may match part of that label with an explicit prefix or suffix. For example, |