gsasl_stringprep_saslprep(3)

gsasl_stringprep_saslprep3

Api function

Usage

#include <gsasl.h>

char * gsasl_stringprep_saslprep(const char * in, int * stringprep_rc);

Arguments

const char * in

input ASCII or UTF-8 string with data to prepare according to SASLprep.

int * stringprep_rc

pointer to output variable with stringprep error code, or NULL to indicate that you don't care about it.

Overview

Process a Unicode string for comparison, according to the "SASLprep" stringprep profile. This function is intended to be used by Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) mechanisms (such as PLAIN, CRAM-MD5, and DIGEST-MD5) as well as other protocols exchanging user names and/or passwords.

Return value: Return a newly allocated string that is the "SASLprep" processed form of the input string, or NULL on error, in which case stringprep_rc contain the stringprep library error code.

Deprecated

Use gsasl_saslprep() instead.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7–10
  5. 11

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
General guidelines for reporting bugs: http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/
GNU SASL home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/

From libgsasl-dev 1.10.0-4+deb11u1 in Debian 11 (Bullseye). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.