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Title: TLS Overview
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SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
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SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Dan Winship
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SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Collabora, Ltd.
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# TLS Overview
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[class@Gio.TlsConnection] and related classes provide TLS (Transport Layer
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Security, previously known as SSL, Secure Sockets Layer) support for GIO-based
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network streams.
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[iface@Gio.DtlsConnection] and related classes provide DTLS (Datagram TLS)
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support for GIO-based network sockets, using the [iface@Gio.DatagramBased]
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interface. The TLS and DTLS APIs are almost identical, except TLS is
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stream-based and DTLS is datagram-based. They share certificate and backend
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infrastructure.
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In the simplest case, for a client TLS connection, you can just set the
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[property@Gio.SocketClient:tls] flag on a [class@Gio.SocketClient], and then any
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connections created by that client will have TLS negotiated automatically, using
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appropriate default settings, and rejecting any invalid or self-signed
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certificates (unless you change that default by setting the
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[property@Gio.SocketClient:tls-validation-flags] property). The returned object
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will be a [class@Gio.TcpWrapperConnection], which wraps the underlying
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[iface@Gio.TlsClientConnection].
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For greater control, you can create your own [iface@Gio.TlsClientConnection],
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wrapping a [class@Gio.SocketConnection] (or an arbitrary [class@Gio.IOStream]
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with pollable input and output streams) and then connect to its signals,
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such as [signal@Gio.TlsConnection::accept-certificate], before starting the
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handshake.
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Server-side TLS is similar, using [iface@Gio.TlsServerConnection]. At the
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moment, there is no support for automatically wrapping server-side
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connections in the way [class@Gio.SocketClient] does for client-side
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connections.
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