On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 01:31:07PM +0200, Lutz Jaenicke wrote:
> The client _can_not_ successfully cache sessions. The reason is, that

Ooh, this was not expressed very clear. I wanted to say: the OpenSSL
LIBRARY can not automatically supply a client session from the cache.
The client APPLICATION of course can  :-)

> the SSL client must name one specific session to be reused upon start of
> the negotiation. Since the SSL layer has no idea on the server it is connected
> to, it can not make a reasonable choice on the session to be reused.
> The application is responsible to make that choice.

Best regards,
        Lutz
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