OSSL_HTTP_open(): clarify doc of 'server' arg and its use of BIO_new_connect()

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/17186)

diff --git a/doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_transfer.pod b/doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_transfer.pod
index b0ca394448651e7b01505191f03aec6f5fada20a..7fcd71dbe03b563c60389d33f0596d5c1eedc770 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_transfer.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_transfer.pod
@@ -56,9 +56,10 @@ OSSL_HTTP_open() initiates an HTTP session using the I<bio> argument if not
 NULL, else by connecting to a given I<server> optionally via a I<proxy>.
 
 Typically the OpenSSL build supports sockets and the I<bio> parameter is NULL.
-In this case I<rbio> must be NULL as well, and the
-library creates a network BIO internally for connecting to the given I<server>
-and the optionally given I<port>, defaulting to 80 for HTTP or 443 for HTTPS.
+In this case I<rbio> must be NULL as well and the I<server> must be non-NULL.
+The function creates a network BIO internally using L<BIO_new_connect(3)>
+for connecting to the given server and the optionally given I<port>,
+defaulting to 80 for HTTP or 443 for HTTPS.
 Then this internal BIO is used for setting up a connection
 and for exchanging one or more request and response.
 If I<bio> is given and I<rbio> is NULL then this I<bio> is used instead.
@@ -255,7 +256,7 @@ OSSL_HTTP_close() returns 0 if anything went wrong while disconnecting, else 1.
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
-L<OSSL_HTTP_parse_url(3)>, L<BIO_set_conn_port(3)>
+L<OSSL_HTTP_parse_url(3)>, L<BIO_new_connect(3)>,
 L<ASN1_item_i2d_mem_bio(3)>, L<ASN1_item_d2i_bio(3)>,
 L<OSSL_HTTP_is_alive(3)>