What is the "convincing use case"?

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Satyam Shekhar <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Chaitanya Gupta
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I need to support TLS session resumption in my node.js app. I am
>> > creating a TLS server usingrequire('tls').createServer(). By default,
>> > the server has a session ticket lifetime of 300 seconds (as seen with
>> > OpenSSL's s_client).
>> >
>> > I need the session timeout to be beyond 300 seconds. How can I do
>> > this? I couldn't find anything in node's API docs that could help.
>>
>> Node doesn't let you do that. If you have a convincing use case,
>> please open an issue and we'll add it.
>
>
>
> I want to contribute this.
>
> I was thinking of implementing it in one of the following ways -
>
> 1.
> i) Take sessionTimeout as an option to createServer
> ii) Expose a method setTimeout on SecureContext in node_crypto.cc which
> calls SSL_CTX_set_timeout, and use that to set default session timeout for
> the context, from the "connection" event callback inside createServer.
>
> 2.
> i) Expose setSessionTimeout on CryptoStream in tls.js which again calls
> setSessionTimeout exposed by Connection in node_crypto.cc. This
> calls SSL_SESSION_set_timeout to set the timeout for that session. Now, the
> user can call setSessionTimeout on the exposed CleartextStream to set the
> timeout.
>
> What do you think?
>
> -- satyam
>
>
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