Initializes the OpenSSL library and establishes a connection with a remote HTTPS server.

hostinfo—A PV-WAVE STRING containing the connection information for the target server. This should be an IP address or URL for the server followed by the port number to connect to, for example "www.random.org:443". Port 443 is the standard port on which HTTPS servers listen for SSL connections.

On success, a PV-WAVE named structure of type SSL_BIO_CTX containing the connection handles is returned for use by other SSL_connect routines. The SSL_BIO_CTX structure is defined by SSL_CONNECT_LOAD Procedure.

On failure, returns one of the following

Trust—An optional STRING containing the full path to, and name of, the local client's 'trust store'. A trust store file (.pem) contains the root certificates for trusted Certificate Authorities (CA). If provided, the certificate provided by the server during the handshake process is validated against those in the trust store. If the certificate chain provided by the server resolves to the root certificate of a trusted CA, as indicated by its presence in the trust store, the connection is allowed. Typically, this keyword is not used when accessing a trusted, internal server. By default, the server is assumed to be trusted and no validation is performed.

For more information and to see this process in use, see the file ssl_demo.pro in the SSL_connect lib directory.

SSL_CLIENT_CLOSE, SSL_CLIENT_READ, SSL_CLIENT_WRITE, SSL_CONNECT_LOAD