do not affect already established sessions.
The expiration time of a single session can be modified using the
-L<SSL_SESSION_get_time(3)|SSL_SESSION_get_time(3)> family of functions.
+L<SSL_SESSION_get_time(3)> family of functions.
Expired sessions are removed from the internal session cache, whenever
-L<SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(3)|SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(3)> is called, either
+L<SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(3)> is called, either
directly by the application or automatically (see
-L<SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode(3)|SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode(3)>)
+L<SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode(3)>)
-The default value for session timeout is 300 seconds.
+The default value for session timeout is decided on a per protocol
+basis, see L<SSL_get_default_timeout(3)>.
+All currently supported protocols have the same default timeout value
+of 300 seconds.
=head1 RETURN VALUES
=head1 SEE ALSO
-L<ssl(3)|ssl(3)>,
-L<SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode(3)|SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode(3)>,
-L<SSL_SESSION_get_time(3)|SSL_SESSION_get_time(3)>,
-L<SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(3)|SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(3)>
+L<ssl(3)>,
+L<SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode(3)>,
+L<SSL_SESSION_get_time(3)>,
+L<SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(3)>,
+L<SSL_get_default_timeout(3)>
+
+=head1 COPYRIGHT
+
+Copyright 2001-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+
+Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use
+this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
+in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
+L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
=cut