SSL_CTX_SESS_NUMBER(3ossl)

📦 version 3.5.0, in opensuse-leap 16.0

✨ NAME ✨

okay so this is the 3ossl manual page for SSL_CTX_sess_number, SSL_CTX_sess_connect, SSL_CTX_sess_connect_good, SSL_CTX_sess_connect_renegotiate, SSL_CTX_sess_accept, SSL_CTX_sess_accept_good, SSL_CTX_sess_accept_renegotiate, SSL_CTX_sess_hits, SSL_CTX_sess_cb_hits, SSL_CTX_sess_misses, SSL_CTX_sess_timeouts, and SSL_CTX_sess_cache_full — all here to obtain session cache statistics. bestie, it’s literally a little stats squad for your session cache 💅

🛠️ SYNOPSIS 🛠️

#include <openssl/ssl.h>

long SSL_CTX_sess_number(SSL_CTX *ctx);
long SSL_CTX_sess_connect(SSL_CTX *ctx);
long SSL_CTX_sess_connect_good(SSL_CTX *ctx);
long SSL_CTX_sess_connect_renegotiate(SSL_CTX *ctx);
long SSL_CTX_sess_accept(SSL_CTX *ctx);
long SSL_CTX_sess_accept_good(SSL_CTX *ctx);
long SSL_CTX_sess_accept_renegotiate(SSL_CTX *ctx);
long SSL_CTX_sess_hits(SSL_CTX *ctx);
long SSL_CTX_sess_cb_hits(SSL_CTX *ctx);
long SSL_CTX_sess_misses(SSL_CTX *ctx);
long SSL_CTX_sess_timeouts(SSL_CTX *ctx);
long SSL_CTX_sess_cache_full(SSL_CTX *ctx);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay, gather round, because each of these is its own little icon and they all return a long. here’s the tea:

  • SSL_CTX_sess_number() — returns the current number of sessions in the internal session cache. like, right now-right now.
  • SSL_CTX_sess_connect() — returns the number of started SSL/TLS handshakes in client mode.
  • SSL_CTX_sess_connect_good() — returns the number of successfully established SSL/TLS sessions in client mode. good for her honestly.
  • SSL_CTX_sess_connect_renegotiate() — returns the number of started renegotiations in client mode.
  • SSL_CTX_sess_accept() — returns the number of started SSL/TLS handshakes in server mode.
  • SSL_CTX_sess_accept_good() — returns the number of successfully established SSL/TLS sessions in server mode.
  • SSL_CTX_sess_accept_renegotiate() — returns the number of started renegotiations in server mode.
  • SSL_CTX_sess_hits() — returns the number of successfully reused sessions. in client mode, a session set with SSL_set_session(3) that is successfully reused counts as a hit 💖 in server mode, a session successfully retrieved from the internal or external cache counts as a hit.
  • SSL_CTX_sess_cb_hits() — returns the number of successfully retrieved sessions from the external session cache in server mode.
  • SSL_CTX_sess_misses() — returns the number of sessions proposed by clients that were not found in the internal session cache in server mode. rip.
  • SSL_CTX_sess_timeouts() — returns the number of sessions proposed by clients and either found in the internal or external session cache in server mode, but that were invalid due to timeout. these sessions are not included in the SSL_CTX_sess_hits() count. important!! don’t double-count the girlies.
  • SSL_CTX_sess_cache_full() — returns the number of sessions that were removed because the maximum session cache size was exceeded. cache was full, she had to go 😭

💖 RETURN VALUES 💖

the functions return the values indicated in the DESCRIPTION section. no mystery, no plot twist — just the numbers described above 🫶

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

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mwah 💋 that’s the whole page, bestie — OpenSSL 3.5.0, dated 2026-09-25, signing off as SSL_CTX_SESS_NUMBER(3ossl). periodt 💅✨

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