Webmaster in a Nutshell, Third Edition

Name

SSLSessionCache

Synopsis

                     SSLSessionCache 
                     type
                  

[server config]

Specifies the type of resource used for the SSL session cache. The session cache contains the SSL verification information for an open session, and allows access to this information to the multiple processes involved in a client request session. Clients will commonly use HTTP KeepAlive to retrieve numerous files associated with a resource like inline images, style sheets, etc., simultaneously to reduce loading time.

This directive specifies the type of resource used for the session cache with the following options:

none

Disables the session cache. Functionality is not affected, but requests will take longer to complete.

dbm:/path/file

Specifies the name of a DBM hash file to use as the session cache file.

shm:/path/file

Specifies a hash table stored in shared memory for the session cache file. An optional size argument sets the size of the hashtable. This option is not available on all platforms.