ARES_PARSE_URI_REPLY(3) Introduction to Library Functions

NAME

ares_parse_uri_reply - Parse a reply to a DNS query of type URI

SYNOPSIS

#include <ares.h>

int ares_parse_uri_reply(const unsigned char* abuf, int alen,
struct ares_uri_reply** uri_out);

DESCRIPTION

The ares_parse_uri_reply(3) function parses the response to a query
of type URI into a linked list of struct ares_uri_reply The
parameters abuf and alen give the contents of the response. The
result is stored in allocated memory and a pointer to it stored into
the variable pointed to by uri_out. It is the caller's
responsibility to free the resulting uri_out structure when it is no
longer needed using the function ares_free_data(3).

The structure ares_uri_reply contains the following fields:
struct ares_uri_reply {
struct ares_uri_reply *next;
unsigned short weight;
unsigned short priority;
char *uri;
int ttl;
};

RETURN VALUES

ares_parse_uri_reply can return any of the following values:

ARES_SUCCESS The response was successfully parsed.

ARES_EBADRESP The response was malformatted.

ARES_ENODATA The response did not contain an answer to the query.

ARES_ENOMEM Memory was exhausted.

AVAILABILITY

SEE ALSO

ares_query(3) ares_free_data(3)

14 August 2020 ARES_PARSE_URI_REPLY(3)