No it does not unless you don't configure a shared SSL session cache.
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_ssl_module.html#ssl_session_cache

I'm assuming that the upstream servers are Nginx also.
If not adapt to the appropriate server session cache setup.


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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:03 PM, mamoos1 <nginx-forum@nginx.us> wrote:

> A shame that no one has a solution for this...
> It's a really big performance hit whenever backend servers are https and
> nginx simply renegotiates SSL for each request.
>
> Is there any plan to support this? Some sort of backend connection pooling
> with SSL?
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum:
> http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,238424,238746#msg-238746
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