5 CMS_compress - create a CMS CompressedData structure
9 #include <openssl/cms.h>
11 CMS_ContentInfo *CMS_compress(BIO *in, int comp_nid, unsigned int flags);
15 CMS_compress() creates and returns a CMS CompressedData structure. B<comp_nid>
16 is the compression algorithm to use or B<NID_undef> to use the default
17 algorithm (zlib compression). B<in> is the content to be compressed.
18 B<flags> is an optional set of flags.
22 The only currently supported compression algorithm is zlib using the NID
25 If zlib support is not compiled into OpenSSL then CMS_compress() will return
28 If the B<CMS_TEXT> flag is set MIME headers for type B<text/plain> are
29 prepended to the data.
31 Normally the supplied content is translated into MIME canonical format (as
32 required by the S/MIME specifications) if B<CMS_BINARY> is set no translation
33 occurs. This option should be used if the supplied data is in binary format
34 otherwise the translation will corrupt it. If B<CMS_BINARY> is set then
35 B<CMS_TEXT> is ignored.
37 If the B<CMS_STREAM> flag is set a partial B<CMS_ContentInfo> structure is
38 returned suitable for streaming I/O: no data is read from the BIO B<in>.
40 The compressed data is included in the CMS_ContentInfo structure, unless
41 B<CMS_DETACHED> is set in which case it is omitted. This is rarely used in
42 practice and is not supported by SMIME_write_CMS().
46 If the flag B<CMS_STREAM> is set the returned B<CMS_ContentInfo> structure is
47 B<not> complete and outputting its contents via a function that does not
48 properly finalize the B<CMS_ContentInfo> structure will give unpredictable
51 Several functions including SMIME_write_CMS(), i2d_CMS_bio_stream(),
52 PEM_write_bio_CMS_stream() finalize the structure. Alternatively finalization
53 can be performed by obtaining the streaming ASN1 B<BIO> directly using
56 Additional compression parameters such as the zlib compression level cannot
61 CMS_compress() returns either a CMS_ContentInfo structure or NULL if an error
62 occurred. The error can be obtained from ERR_get_error(3).
66 L<ERR_get_error(3)|ERR_get_error(3)>, L<CMS_uncompress(3)|CMS_uncompress(3)>
70 CMS_compress() was added to OpenSSL 0.9.8
71 The B<CMS_STREAM> flag was first supported in OpenSSL 1.0.0.