The name change makes sense to me. I'll make the change everywhere in my PR
tomorrow if everyone agrees with it. To be clear:

- Method to create SSL server context: `TSSslServerContextCreate`
- Method to destroy any kind of SSL context: `TSSslContextDestroy`

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 2:57 PM, James Peach <[email protected]> wrote:

> This looks pretty reasonable to me. One concern I have is that this API
> creates SSL server contexts, so we ought to distinguish that in the API
> name.
>
> I propose that TSSslContextCreate() be named TSSslServerContextCreate(),
> and that we define TSSslContextDestroy() will be able to destroy both
> server and client contexts (assuming we ever implement the latter).
>
> How does that sound?
>
> > On Apr 21, 2016, at 10:22 AM, Mathias Biilmann <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > *API Review of adding TSSslContextCreate and TSSslContextDestroy*
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Here's the API review request for the pull request:
> >
> > It adds two new API functions for creating and destroying SSL
> > contexts.
> >
> > Traffic server exposes hooks that plugins can use to load certificates
> via
> > other
> > mechanisms than the ssl_multicert.config, but there's currently no way
> for
> > a plugin
> > to create a new SSL context based on the current ATS settings (cipher
> > suites, which
> > protocols to support, etc, etc).
> >
> > The TSSslContextCreate gives plugins an API function that will return a
> > wrapped
> > SSL context that respect all the SSL related settings in records.config
> >
> > It's up to the plugin to free the context after use, so the pull request
> > includes
> > a corresponding TSSslContextDestroy API function for freeing the context
> > (just
> > wraps the open ssl call for this, but having an API function makes it
> more
> > obvious
> > that it's up to the plugin author to free the context).
> >
> > The two new API functions are:
> >
> >    tsapi TSSslContext TSSslContextCreate()
> >    tsapi void TSSslContextDestroy(TSSslContext ctx)
> >
> > Best,
> > Matt
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:11 AM, David Calavera <
> [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Originally proposed in https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/402
> .
> >>
> >> It would be convenient to have those two methods in the API to properly
> >> create SSL contexts setting the right configuration from records.config.
> >>
> >> I opened a ticket to track the issue:
> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-4373
> >> The final code is in https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/594
> >> You can see the API documentation is isolated in this commit:
> >>
> >>
> https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/594/commits/523e9e703ecd835dc84e829d4539a1bf40e3ee3c
> >>
> >> Please, let me know if there is anything else I should do.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> David
> >>
>
>

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