gnutls_bye — API function

Synopsis

#include <gnutls/gnutls.h>

int gnutls_bye(gnutls_session_t session, gnutls_close_request_t how);

Arguments

gnutls_session_t session

is a gnutls_session_t type.

gnutls_close_request_t how

is an integer

Description

Terminates the current TLS/SSL connection. The connection should have been initiated using gnutls_handshake().   how should be one of GNUTLS_SHUT_RDWR, GNUTLS_SHUT_WR.

In case of GNUTLS_SHUT_RDWR the TLS session gets terminated and further receives and sends will be disallowed.  If the return value is zero you may continue using the underlying transport layer. GNUTLS_SHUT_RDWR sends an alert containing a close request and waits for the peer to reply with the same message.

In case of GNUTLS_SHUT_WR the TLS session gets terminated and further sends will be disallowed. In order to reuse the connection you should wait for an EOF from the peer. GNUTLS_SHUT_WR sends an alert containing a close request.

Note that not all implementations will properly terminate a TLS connection.  Some of them, usually for performance reasons, will terminate only the underlying transport layer, and thus not distinguishing between a malicious party prematurely terminating  the connection and normal termination.

This function may also return GNUTLS_E_AGAIN or GNUTLS_E_INTERRUPTED; cf.  gnutls_record_get_direction().

Returns

GNUTLS_E_SUCCESS on success, or an error code, see function documentation for entire semantics.

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to <bugs@gnutls.org>.
Home page: https://www.gnutls.org

See Also

The full documentation for gnutls is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the /usr/share/doc/gnutls/ directory does not contain the HTML form visit

https://www.gnutls.org/manual/

Info

3.6.9 gnutls