Re: Question on allocating Storage

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

BTW, there is an example in the online books, but it's in
C.  They're using malloc().

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:08:27 -0500
 "Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm working withthe SSL_Init_Application API and seem to
> be
> having a problem with one of the variables in the
> structure.
> 
> The definition of the field in the structure is:
> ----------------
> char*          localCertificate;     /* local certificate
>           
> ----------------
> The description for this is:
> ----------------
> char *localCertificate  (input) 
> On input, the localCertificate pointer must be set to
> point
> to storage that has been allocated by the calling
> application that will be used on output to contain the
> application's registered local certificate. If a
> certificate is not to be returned then set this pointer's
> value to NULL and the localCertificateLen value to zero
> (0). The storage should be large enough to accomodate the
> size of the certificate. Most certificates are less than
> 2K
> in length. On output, the localCertificate pointer will
> not
> be changed, though the storage it points to will contain
> the registered application's certificate. The certificate
> will be the one registered for that application via the
> Register Application for Certificate Use (OPM, QSYRGAP;
> ILE, QsyRegisterAppForCertUse) API. See the Register
> Application for Certificate Use API for information on
> the
> format and values allowed for the application identifier.
> 
> --------------------
> 
> I keep getting a "the specified parameter is invalid"
> when
> using this API and assigning a certificate to the
> application that I have registered with DCM.
> 
> So, what I would like to ask is, if you were to define
> and
> allocate storage as described above, how would you do it?
>  
> 
> What I did was simply create a user defined character
> variable and then assign the pointer to that variable.  I
> also tried ALLOC and that resulted in the same error.
> 
> Because this API works when no certificate is assigned to
> the application, and not when there is a certificate
> assigned, that is leading me to believe that I have done
> something wrong with this parm in the structure.
> 
> Thanks!
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Bradley V. Stone
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