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authorMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>2021-09-11 09:58:52 +0100
committerTomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>2021-09-17 14:35:10 +0200
commit5402f96aba9dd3d0b3006b8b2651bd27d3cbf326 (patch)
treec4ae79aa44f5fbc316776a002a01b19fa06dee8e /doc
parent97a1fb5106fdb2b3dc3bbe84d0892db40e50c45f (diff)
Correct the documentation for SSL_set_num_tickets()
The behaviour for what happens in a resumption connection was not quite described correctly. Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16582) (cherry picked from commit 4603b782e6dbed493d2f38db111abc05df66fb99)
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-rw-r--r--doc/man3/SSL_CTX_set_num_tickets.pod8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/SSL_CTX_set_num_tickets.pod b/doc/man3/SSL_CTX_set_num_tickets.pod
index ad13ed15f4..2224b35c30 100644
--- a/doc/man3/SSL_CTX_set_num_tickets.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/SSL_CTX_set_num_tickets.pod
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ the client after a full handshake. Set the desired value (which could be 0) in
the B<num_tickets> argument. Typically these functions should be called before
the start of the handshake.
-The default number of tickets is 2; the default number of tickets sent following
-a resumption handshake is 1 but this cannot be changed using these functions.
-The number of tickets following a resumption handshake can be reduced to 0 using
-custom session ticket callbacks (see L<SSL_CTX_set_session_ticket_cb(3)>).
+The default number of tickets is 2. Following a resumption the number of tickets
+issued will never be more than 1 regardless of the value set via
+SSL_set_num_tickets() or SSL_CTX_set_num_tickets(). If B<num_tickets> is set to
+0 then no tickets will be issued for either a normal connection or a resumption.
Tickets are also issued on receipt of a post-handshake certificate from the
client following a request by the server using