On Thu, Aug 12, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> [...]
> > What about applying the allowed cipher mask to sessions grabbed from the cache?
> > Or something like storing the cipher mask in the database and clearing the
> > cache only when it changes.
> 
> Err... but if preserving the cache means that the server *will* behave
> differently then from how it is configured, then the cache *should* be
> cleared. This is sort of like not having your .c's dependent on your
> Makefile IMHO.
> 
> I suppose you could run through all the cache entries and make sure they
> jive with the server's configuration, and then remove the ones that
> don't. 

I've still not checked the technical possibilities, but I guess
this isn't easy to accomplish.

> Or you could just add an option to mod_ssl to unlink, or not, the
> cache files on starts and re-starts. With the default set to the current
> behavior.

This would be a reasonable approach, yes. We can use something like
`SSLOptions +PurgeCacheOnStartup' in httpd.conf, how about this?

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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