AN_CONNECT_TOHOSTNAME
Section: Antinat Programmer's Manual (3)Updated: 2005-01-02
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NAME
an_connect_tohostname - connect to an outgoing address
SYNOPSIS
#include <antinat.h>
int an_connect_tohostname(ANCONN s, const char *hostname, unsigned short port);
DESCRIPTION
The an_connect_tohostname(3) function is used to connect to the specified hostname at the specified port. This call should be used in preference to an_connect_tosockaddr(3) because it allows name resolution to be deferred to the proxy where possible.
s is a socket previously created with an_new_connection(3) call.
hostname is a hostname that a connection will be initiated to.
port is the port that a connection will be initiated to. This can be specified in host byte-order.
NOTES
Although there is planned support for non-blocking sockets in a future release, this call should be considered a blocking call. A non-blocking socket will be silently (and temporarily) changed to a blocking one to process the connection.
RETURN VALUE
This call returns AN_ERROR_SUCCESS to indicate successful completion.
ERRORS
- AN_ERROR_AUTH
- The proxy would not accept the authentication credentials that were supplied to it.
- AN_ERROR_INVALIDARG
- The socket handle or hostname is invalid.
- AN_ERROR_NAMERESOLVE
- Could not resolve proxy hostname; for some types of proxy, the remote host also needs to be locally resolved, which could also generate this error.
- AN_ERROR_NOMEM
- Could not allocate memory to translate hostname into address where the client will connect directly.
- AN_ERROR_NOTSUPPORTED
- This call cannot be made on the type of socket, or cannot return socket information for this type of connection.
- AN_ERROR_ORDER
- This call must be called without having performed any operation on the socket other than an_new_connection(3).
- AN_ERROR_NETWORK
- Could not read information from the network; a network error occurred.
- AN_ERROR_PROXY
- The proxy failed to successfully process the connection.
SEE ALSO
an_close(3), an_connect_tosockaddr(3) an_new_connection(3)
AUTHOR
Malcolm Smith <[email protected]>
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