SSL_GET_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT(3ossl)

📦 version 3.5.0, in opensuse-leap 16.0

🌸 NAME 🌸

SSL_get_default_timeout — get default session timeout value. You're reading the SSL_GET_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT(3ossl) page, aka the 3ossl manual, bestie 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so include the header and call it like this, no cap:

#include <openssl/ssl.h>

long SSL_get_default_timeout(const SSL *ssl);

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

SSL_get_default_timeout() returns the default timeout value assigned to SSL_SESSION objects negotiated for the protocol valid for ssl.

💅 NOTES 💅

Whenever a new session is negotiated, it is assigned a timeout value, after which it will not be accepted for session reuse. If the timeout value was not explicitly set using SSL_CTX_set_timeout(3), the hardcoded default timeout for the protocol will be used.

SSL_get_default_timeout() returns this hardcoded value, which is 300 seconds for all currently supported protocols.

bestie, session reuse has a time limit and that's just the vibe check 💀

🫶 RETURN VALUES 🫶

See description.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

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Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (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 <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.

okay bestie, that's the whole page 💖 it's from OpenSSL 3.5.0 and dated 2026-09-25 — slay, periodt ✨

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