From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@turtle.(none)>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:28:39 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: documented the way set_subject_alt_name() can set value.
X-Git-Tag: gnutls_2_5_9~33
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dbd8501602b464a576785e77f17355ec89d7ced9;p=thirdparty%2Fgnutls.git

documented the way set_subject_alt_name() can set value.
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diff --git a/lib/x509/x509_write.c b/lib/x509/x509_write.c
index f055560cf0..e0c58be914 100644
--- a/lib/x509/x509_write.c
+++ b/lib/x509/x509_write.c
@@ -498,7 +498,17 @@ gnutls_x509_crt_set_subject_alternative_name (gnutls_x509_crt_t crt,
  * @flags: GNUTLS_FSAN_SET to clear previous data or GNUTLS_FSAN_APPEND to append. 
  *
  * This function will set the subject alternative name certificate
- * extension.
+ * extension. It can set the following types:
+ *
+ * &GNUTLS_SAN_DNSNAME: as a text string
+ *
+ * &GNUTLS_SAN_RFC822NAME: as a text string
+ *
+ * &GNUTLS_SAN_URI: as a text string
+ *
+ * &GNUTLS_SAN_IPADDRESS: as a binary IP address (4 or 16 bytes)
+ * 
+ * Other values can be set as binary values with the proper DER encoding.
  *
  * Returns: On success, %GNUTLS_E_SUCCESS is returned, otherwise a
  *   negative error value.