configure SSL session timeout

2005-10-06 Thread ktchow

Dear All,

I know the SSL session timeout param can be configured by the directive SSLSessionCacheTimeout. Is there any setting or API for the browser or client application to configure the SSL session timeout param and override the server's one such that each application can configure their timeout period of the SSL connection according to their requirement?

Please advise and regards,

KT Chow

Re: configure SSL session timeout

2005-10-06 Thread Cliff Woolley
 I know the SSL session timeout param can be configured by the directive
 SSLSessionCacheTimeout. Is there any setting or API for the browser or
 client application to configure the SSL session timeout param and override
 the server's one such that each application can configure their timeout
 period of the SSL connection according to their requirement?

Nope... not that I know of.

--Cliff
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Re: configure SSL session timeout

2005-10-06 Thread Mads Toftum
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:51:47AM -0400, Cliff Woolley wrote:
  I know the SSL session timeout param can be configured by the directive
  SSLSessionCacheTimeout. Is there any setting or API for the browser or
  client application to configure the SSL session timeout param and override
  the server's one such that each application can configure their timeout
  period of the SSL connection according to their requirement?
 
 Nope... not that I know of.
 
Just to clear this up - both the client and the server choose wether
they want to reuse sessions. SSLSessionCacheTimeout sets how long the
server is willing to reuse a session, but a client may choose not to
reuse the session after a shorter time. When a session expires on the
server, a client may try to reuse the session, but the server won't
allow that.
One example of a client using short session times is IE which would
expire SSL2 sessions really fast, but allow TLSv1 with strong crypto to
live much longer (that experience is a couple of years old, so they've
probably changed the policy many times over since then).

vh

Mads Toftum
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