setRequireCloseNotify

Sets whether or not @conn expects a proper TLS close notification before the connection is closed. If this is true (the default), then @conn will expect to receive a TLS close notification from its peer before the connection is closed, and will return a %G_TLS_ERROR_EOF error if the connection is closed without proper notification (since this may indicate a network error, or man-in-the-middle attack).

In some protocols, the application will know whether or not the connection was closed cleanly based on application-level data (because the application-level data includes a length field, or is somehow self-delimiting); in this case, the close notify is redundant and sometimes omitted. (TLS 1.1 explicitly allows this; in TLS 1.0 it is technically an error, but often done anyway.) You can use g_tls_connection_set_require_close_notify() to tell @conn to allow an "unannounced" connection close, in which case the close will show up as a 0-length read, as in a non-TLS #GSocketConnection, and it is up to the application to check that the data has been fully received.

Note that this only affects the behavior when the peer closes the connection; when the application calls g_io_stream_close() itself on @conn, this will send a close notification regardless of the setting of this property. If you explicitly want to do an unclean close, you can close @conn's #GTlsConnection:base-io-stream rather than closing @conn itself, but note that this may only be done when no other operations are pending on @conn or the base I/O stream.

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