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doc: remove reference to "credentials object"
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The reference is confusing because the object is actually of class
SecureContext. There is no object with class "credentials".

See: #20432 (comment)

PR-URL: #26908
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
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sam-github authored and targos committed Mar 30, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -1341,7 +1341,9 @@ to `true`, other APIs that create secure contexts leave it unset.
from `process.argv` as the default value of the `sessionIdContext` option, other
APIs that create secure contexts have no default value.

The `tls.createSecureContext()` method creates a credentials object.
The `tls.createSecureContext()` method creates a `SecureContext` object. It is
usable as an argument to several `tls` APIs, such as [`tls.createServer()`][]
and [`server.addContext()`][], but has no public methods.

A key is *required* for ciphers that make use of certificates. Either `key` or
`pfx` can be used to provide it.
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[`net.Server.address()`]: net.html#net_server_address
[`net.Server`]: net.html#net_class_net_server
[`net.Socket`]: net.html#net_class_net_socket
[`server.addContext()`]: #tls_server_addcontext_hostname_context
[`server.getConnections()`]: net.html#net_server_getconnections_callback
[`server.getTicketKeys()`]: #tls_server_getticketkeys
[`server.listen()`]: net.html#net_server_listen
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