From: Lutz Jänicke <jaenicke@openssl.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:14:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: New manual page for a hardly known but important item :-)
X-Git-Tag: OpenSSL_0_9_6a-beta1~74^2
X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=cd6aa710b5f4df1959b9bb3f78928619502b39af

New manual page for a hardly known but important item :-)
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diff --git a/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_session_id_context.pod b/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_session_id_context.pod
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5949395159
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_session_id_context.pod
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+=pod
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+SSL_CTX_set_session_id_context, SSL_set_session_id_context - set context within which session can be reused (server side only)
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+ #include <openssl/ssl.h>
+
+ int SSL_CTX_set_session_id_context(SSL_CTX *ctx, const unsigned char *sid_ctx,
+                                    unsigned int sid_ctx_len);
+ int SSL_set_session_id_context(SSL *ssl, const unsigned char *sid_ctx,
+                                unsigned int sid_ctx_len);
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+SSL_CTX_set_session_id_context() sets the context B<sid_ctx> of length
+B<sid_ctx_len> within which a session can be reused for the B<ctx> object.
+
+SSL_set_session_id_context() sets the context B<sid_ctx> of length
+B<sid_ctx_len> within which a session can be reused for the B<ssl> object.
+
+=head1 NOTES
+
+Sessions are generated within a certain context. When exporting/importing
+sessions with B<i2d_SSL_SESSION>/B<d2i_SSL_SESSION> it would be possible,
+to re-import a session generated from another context (e.g. another
+application), which might lead to malfunctions. Therefore each application
+must set its own session id context B<sid_ctx> which is used to distinguish
+the contexts and is stored in exported sessions. The B<sid_ctx> can be
+any kind of binary data with a given length, it is therefore possible
+to use e.g. the name of the application and/or the hostname and/or service
+name ...
+
+The session id context becomes part of the session. The session id context
+is set by the SSL/TLS server. The SSL_CTX_set_session_id_context() and
+SSL_set_session_id_context() functions are therefore only useful on the
+server side.
+
+OpenSSL clients will check the session id context returned by the server
+when reusing a session.
+
+The maximum length of the B<sid_ctx> is limited to
+B<SSL_MAX_SSL_SESSION_ID_LENGTH>.
+
+=head1 WARNINGS
+
+If the session id context is not set on an SSL/TLS server, stored sessions
+will not be reused but a fatal error will be flagged and the handshake
+will fail.
+
+If a server returns a different session id context to an OpenSSL client
+when reusing a session, an error will be flagged and the handshake will
+fail. OpenSSL servers will always return the correct session id context,
+as an OpenSSL server checks the session id context itself before reusing
+a session as described above.
+
+=head1 RETURN VALUES
+
+SSL_CTX_set_session_id_context() and SSL_set_session_id_context()
+return the following values:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item 0
+
+The length B<sid_ctx_len> of the session id context B<sid_ctx> exceeded
+the maximum allowed length of B<SSL_MAX_SSL_SESSION_ID_LENGTH>. The error
+is logged to the error stack.
+
+=item 1
+
+The operation succeeded.
+
+=back
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+L<ssl(3)|ssl(3)>
+
+=cut
diff --git a/doc/ssl/ssl.pod b/doc/ssl/ssl.pod
index c0eb40031b..00e27ea8d3 100644
--- a/doc/ssl/ssl.pod
+++ b/doc/ssl/ssl.pod
@@ -657,6 +657,7 @@ L<SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(3)|SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(3)>
 L<SSL_CTX_new(3)|SSL_CTX_new(3)>,
 L<SSL_CTX_set_client_CA_list(3)|SSL_CTX_set_client_CA_list(3)>,
 L<SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb(3)|SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb(3)>,
+L<SSL_CTX_set_session_id_context(3)|SSL_CTX_set_session_id_context(3)>,
 L<SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version(3)|SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version(3)>,
 L<SSL_CTX_set_verify(3)|SSL_CTX_set_verify(3)>,
 L<SSL_CTX_use_certificate(3)|SSL_CTX_use_certificate(3)>,