On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 04:02:58AM +0200, Hoang Hoang wrote:

> Igor Sysoev wrote:
> > Changes with nginx 0.8.17 28 Sep
> > 2009
> >
> > *) Security: now "/../" are disabled in "Destination" request header
> > line.
> >
> > *) Change: now $host variable value is always low case.
> >
> > *) Feature: the $ssl_session_id variable.
> >
> > *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
>
> Hi Igor,
>
> Could you explain how $ssl_session_id variable works?

This variable is the same as Apache's SSL_SESSION_ID:

http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_reference.html#ToC25

SSL_SESSION_ID string The hex-encoded SSL session id

More information about SSL sessions:
http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_intro.html#ToC12


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Igor Sysoev
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