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51 .Dd $Mdocdate: December 4 2016 $
56 .Nd set a TLS/SSL session to be used during TLS/SSL connect
60 .Fn SSL_set_session "SSL *ssl" "SSL_SESSION *session"
65 to be used when the TLS/SSL connection is to be established.
67 is only useful for TLS/SSL clients.
68 When the session is set, the reference count of
72 If the session is not reused, the reference count is decremented again during
74 Whether the session was reused can be queried with the
75 .Xr SSL_session_reused 3
78 If there is already a session set inside
80 (because it was set with
82 before or because the same
84 was already used for a connection),
85 .Xr SSL_SESSION_free 3
86 will be called for that session.
89 objects keep internal link information about the session cache list when being
92 object's session cache.
95 object, regardless of its reference count, must therefore only be used with one
99 objects created from this
103 The following return values can occur:
106 The operation failed; check the error stack to find out the reason.
108 The operation succeeded.
112 .Xr SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode 3 ,
113 .Xr SSL_get_session 3 ,
114 .Xr SSL_SESSION_free 3 ,
115 .Xr SSL_session_reused 3