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If the peer requests a re-negotiation, it will be performed transparently during the .Fn SSL_write operation. The behaviour of .Fn SSL_write depends on the underlying .Vt BIO . .Pp For the transparent negotiation to succeed, the .Fa ssl must have been initialized to client or server mode. This is being done by calling .Xr SSL_set_connect_state 3 or .Xr SSL_set_accept_state 3 before the first call to an .Xr SSL_read 3 or .Fn SSL_write function. .Pp If the underlying .Vt BIO is .Em blocking , .Fn SSL_write will only return once the write operation has been finished or an error occurred, except when a renegotiation take place, in which case a .Dv SSL_ERROR_WANT_READ may occur. This behaviour can be controlled with the .Dv SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag of the .Xr SSL_CTX_set_mode 3 call. .Pp If the underlying .Vt BIO is .Em non-blocking , .Fn SSL_write will also return when the underlying .Vt BIO could not satisfy the needs of .Fn SSL_write to continue the operation. In this case a call to .Xr SSL_get_error 3 with the return value of .Fn SSL_write will yield .Dv SSL_ERROR_WANT_READ or .Dv SSL_ERROR_WANT_WRITE . As at any time a re-negotiation is possible, a call to .Fn SSL_write can also cause read operations! The calling process then must repeat the call after taking appropriate action to satisfy the needs of .Fn SSL_write . The action depends on the underlying .Vt BIO . When using a non-blocking socket, nothing is to be done, but .Xr select 2 can be used to check for the required condition. When using a buffering .Vt BIO , like a .Vt BIO pair, data must be written into or retrieved out of the BIO before being able to continue. .Pp .Fn SSL_write will only return with success when the complete contents of .Fa buf of length .Fa num have been written. This default behaviour can be changed with the .Dv SSL_MODE_ENABLE_PARTIAL_WRITE option of .Xr SSL_CTX_set_mode 3 . When this flag is set, .Fn SSL_write will also return with success when a partial write has been successfully completed. In this case the .Fn SSL_write operation is considered completed. The bytes are sent and a new .Fn SSL_write operation with a new buffer (with the already sent bytes removed) must be started. A partial write is performed with the size of a message block, which is 16kB. .Pp When an .Fn SSL_write operation has to be repeated because .Xr SSL_get_error 3 returned .Dv SSL_ERROR_WANT_READ or .Dv SSL_ERROR_WANT_WRITE , it must be repeated with the same arguments. .Pp When calling .Fn SSL_write with .Fa num Ns =0 bytes to be sent, the behaviour is undefined. .Sh RETURN VALUES The following return values can occur: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It >0 The write operation was successful. The return value is the number of bytes actually written to the TLS/SSL connection. .It 0 The write operation was not successful. Probably the underlying connection was closed. Call .Xr SSL_get_error 3 with the return value to find out whether an error occurred or the connection was shut down cleanly .Pq Dv SSL_ERROR_ZERO_RETURN . .It <0 The write operation was not successful, because either an error occurred or action must be taken by the calling process. Call .Xr SSL_get_error 3 with the return value to find out the reason. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr BIO_new 3 , .Xr ssl 3 , .Xr SSL_accept 3 , .Xr SSL_connect 3 , .Xr SSL_CTX_new 3 , .Xr SSL_CTX_set_mode 3 , .Xr SSL_get_error 3 , .Xr SSL_read 3 , .Xr SSL_set_connect_state 3 .Sh HISTORY .Fn SSL_write appeared in SSLeay 0.4 or earlier and has been available since .Ox 2.4 .