Distributed SSL session cache

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Sat Sep 14 18:53:39 UTC 2013


Hello!

On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 07:08:23PM +0400, Andrew Alexeev wrote:

> On Sep 14, 2013, at 14:49, kyprizel <kyprizel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I'm thinking on design of patch for adding distributed SSL 
> > session cache and have a question -
> > is it  possible and ok to create keepalive upstream to some 
> > storage (memcached/redis/etc), then use it from 
> > ngx_ssl_new_session/ngx_ssl_get_cached_session ?
> 
> I'm hoping someone from our dev team will follow up with more 
> details, however I was gonna ask if you ever checked Matt 
> Palmer's work (he did that for GitHub apparently)
> 
> http://hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2011/06/28/ssl-session-caching-in-nginx.html

It's blocking, and unlikely can be called "work".  Dirty hack at 
most.

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