+DECLARE_STACK_OF(CONF_VALUE)
+DECLARE_LHASH_OF(CONF_VALUE);
+
+struct conf_st;
+struct conf_method_st;
+typedef struct conf_method_st CONF_METHOD;
+
+struct conf_method_st
+ {
+ const char *name;
+ CONF *(*create)(CONF_METHOD *meth);
+ int (*init)(CONF *conf);
+ int (*destroy)(CONF *conf);
+ int (*destroy_data)(CONF *conf);
+ int (*load_bio)(CONF *conf, BIO *bp, long *eline);
+ int (*dump)(const CONF *conf, BIO *bp);
+ int (*is_number)(const CONF *conf, char c);
+ int (*to_int)(const CONF *conf, char c);
+ int (*load)(CONF *conf, const char *name, long *eline);
+ };
+
+/* Module definitions */
+
+typedef struct conf_imodule_st CONF_IMODULE;
+typedef struct conf_module_st CONF_MODULE;
+
+DECLARE_STACK_OF(CONF_MODULE)
+DECLARE_STACK_OF(CONF_IMODULE)
+
+/* DSO module function typedefs */
+typedef int conf_init_func(CONF_IMODULE *md, const CONF *cnf);
+typedef void conf_finish_func(CONF_IMODULE *md);
+
+#define CONF_MFLAGS_IGNORE_ERRORS 0x1
+#define CONF_MFLAGS_IGNORE_RETURN_CODES 0x2
+#define CONF_MFLAGS_SILENT 0x4
+#define CONF_MFLAGS_NO_DSO 0x8
+#define CONF_MFLAGS_IGNORE_MISSING_FILE 0x10
+#define CONF_MFLAGS_DEFAULT_SECTION 0x20
+
+int CONF_set_default_method(CONF_METHOD *meth);
+void CONF_set_nconf(CONF *conf,LHASH_OF(CONF_VALUE) *hash);
+LHASH_OF(CONF_VALUE) *CONF_load(LHASH_OF(CONF_VALUE) *conf,const char *file,
+ long *eline);
+#ifndef OPENSSL_NO_FP_API
+LHASH_OF(CONF_VALUE) *CONF_load_fp(LHASH_OF(CONF_VALUE) *conf, FILE *fp,
+ long *eline);
+#endif
+LHASH_OF(CONF_VALUE) *CONF_load_bio(LHASH_OF(CONF_VALUE) *conf, BIO *bp,long *eline);
+STACK_OF(CONF_VALUE) *CONF_get_section(LHASH_OF(CONF_VALUE) *conf,
+ const char *section);
+char *CONF_get_string(LHASH_OF(CONF_VALUE) *conf,const char *group,
+ const char *name);
+long CONF_get_number(LHASH_OF(CONF_VALUE) *conf,const char *group,
+ const char *name);
+void CONF_free(LHASH_OF(CONF_VALUE) *conf);
+int CONF_dump_fp(LHASH_OF(CONF_VALUE) *conf, FILE *out);
+int CONF_dump_bio(LHASH_OF(CONF_VALUE) *conf, BIO *out);
+
+void OPENSSL_config(const char *config_name);
+void OPENSSL_no_config(void);
+
+/* New conf code. The semantics are different from the functions above.
+ If that wasn't the case, the above functions would have been replaced */
+
+struct conf_st
+ {
+ CONF_METHOD *meth;
+ void *meth_data;
+ LHASH_OF(CONF_VALUE) *data;
+ };
+
+CONF *NCONF_new(CONF_METHOD *meth);
+CONF_METHOD *NCONF_default(void);
+CONF_METHOD *NCONF_WIN32(void);
+#if 0 /* Just to give you an idea of what I have in mind */
+CONF_METHOD *NCONF_XML(void);
+#endif
+void NCONF_free(CONF *conf);
+void NCONF_free_data(CONF *conf);
+
+int NCONF_load(CONF *conf,const char *file,long *eline);
+#ifndef OPENSSL_NO_FP_API
+int NCONF_load_fp(CONF *conf, FILE *fp,long *eline);
+#endif
+int NCONF_load_bio(CONF *conf, BIO *bp,long *eline);
+STACK_OF(CONF_VALUE) *NCONF_get_section(const CONF *conf,const char *section);
+char *NCONF_get_string(const CONF *conf,const char *group,const char *name);
+int NCONF_get_number_e(const CONF *conf,const char *group,const char *name,
+ long *result);
+int NCONF_dump_fp(const CONF *conf, FILE *out);
+int NCONF_dump_bio(const CONF *conf, BIO *out);
+
+#if 0 /* The following function has no error checking,
+ and should therefore be avoided */
+long NCONF_get_number(CONF *conf,char *group,char *name);
+#else
+#define NCONF_get_number(c,g,n,r) NCONF_get_number_e(c,g,n,r)
+#endif
+
+/* Module functions */
+
+int CONF_modules_load(const CONF *cnf, const char *appname,
+ unsigned long flags);
+int CONF_modules_load_file(const char *filename, const char *appname,
+ unsigned long flags);
+void CONF_modules_unload(int all);
+void CONF_modules_finish(void);
+void CONF_modules_free(void);
+int CONF_module_add(const char *name, conf_init_func *ifunc,
+ conf_finish_func *ffunc);