On Thu, Oct 01, 2009, joshi chandran wrote:

> > In OpenSSL 0.9.8j and later extension support is included by default. There 
> > is
> > one extension which is sent automatically: the session ticket extension. If
> > you disable this with the appropriate flag then extensions will not be used.
> >
> 
> Disabling is to be done at client application ? If this session ticket
> extension is send by client and server does not handle this extension,
> will the handshake fails?
> 

It can be disabled in client applications with:

SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_TICKET);

If the server doesn't support the extension or indeed extensions in general
the handshake should still succeed. As noted however some broken servers will
fail.

Steve.
--
Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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