TLS (Tools/APIs)
Background Information
Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols that provide communication security over the Internet. (InterSystems sometimes uses the term SSL/TLS to refer to TLS.)
Available Tools
InterSystems IRIS® data platform supports the ability to store a TLS configuration and specify an associated name. When you need a TLS connection (for HTTP communications, for example), you provide the applicable configuration name, and InterSystems IRIS automatically handles the TLS connection.
Configurations are stored in the Security.SSLConfigsOpens in a new tab class, which provides an object-based API; this class cannot be accessed via SQL.
Availability: All namespaces.
Provides methods that you can use to get information about the TLS connection in use on the principal device, if any. These methods include:
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SSLGetCipher()
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SSLGetCipherList()
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SSLGetLastError()
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SSLGetPeerCertificate()
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SSLGetPeerName()
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SSLGetProtocol()
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SSLPeekClientHello()
Availability: All namespaces.
Note
The special variable $SYSTEM is bound to the %SYSTEM package. This means that instead of ##class(%SYSTEM.class).method(), you can use $SYSTEM.class.method().
