- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- RETURN VALUES
- NOTES
- SEE ALSO
- COPYRIGHT

# NAME

SSL_set_fd, SSL_set_rfd, SSL_set_wfd - connect the SSL object with a file descriptor

# SYNOPSIS

     #include <openssl/ssl.h>

     int SSL_set_fd(SSL *ssl, int fd);
     int SSL_set_rfd(SSL *ssl, int fd);
     int SSL_set_wfd(SSL *ssl, int fd);

# DESCRIPTION

`SSL_set_fd()` sets the file descriptor fd as the input/output facility for the TLS/SSL (encrypted) side of ssl. fd will typically be the socket file descriptor of a network connection.

When performing the operation, a socket BIO is automatically created to interface between the ssl and fd. The BIO and hence the SSL engine inherit the behaviour of fd. If fd is nonblocking, the ssl will also have nonblocking behaviour.

When used on a QUIC connection SSL object, a datagram BIO is automatically created instead of a socket BIO. These functions fail if called on a QUIC stream SSL object.

If there was already a BIO connected to ssl, `BIO_free()` will be called (for both the reading and writing side, if different).

`SSL_set_rfd()` and `SSL_set_wfd()` perform the respective action, but only for the read channel or the write channel, which can be set independently.

# RETURN VALUES

The following return values can occur:

1. The operation failed. Check the error stack to find out why.

2. The operation succeeded.

# NOTES

On Windows, a socket handle is a 64-bit data type (UINT_PTR), which leads to a compiler warning (conversion from 'SOCKET' to 'int', possible loss of data) when passing the socket handle to SSL_set_*fd(). For the time being, this warning can safely be ignored, because although the Microsoft documentation claims that the upper limit is INVALID_SOCKET-1 (2^64 - 2), in practice the current `socket()` implementation returns an index into the kernel handle table, the size of which is limited to 2^24.

# SEE ALSO

SSL_get_fd(3), SSL_set_bio(3), SSL_connect(3), SSL_accept(3), SSL_shutdown(3), ssl(7) , bio(7)

# COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2000-2023 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html.