Changeset 4f39196 in mod_gnutls

Timestamp:

Jun 6, 2020, 11:21:15 AM (4 weeks ago)

Author:

Fiona Klute <fiona.klute@…>

Branches:

master

Children:

a4e3b2c

Parents:

796d9a3

Message:

Update documentation for the GnuTLSCache directive

File:

• doc/mod_gnutls_manual.md (modified) (2 diffs)

doc/mod_gnutls_manual.md

@@ -90 +90 @@
 Context: server config
 
-This directive configures the TLS Session Cache for `mod_gnutls`. This
-could be shared between machines of different architectures. If the
-selected cache implementation is not thread-safe, access is serialized
-using the `gnutls-cache` mutex.
+This directive configures the TLS session cache for `mod_gnutls`. The
+TLS session cache is used both as a server side session cache if not
+using session tickets (for TLS 1.2 and earlier), and if `mod_gnutls`
+is configured as a HTTPS reverse proxy also to cache client sessions
+to backend servers (for TLS 1.3 only).
+
+A cache accessed over network (e.g. memcache) may be shared between
+machines of different architectures. If the selected cache
+implementation is not thread-safe, access is serialized using the
+`gnutls-cache` mutex.
 
 Which cache implementations are available depends on your Apache
@@ -112 +118 @@
 `dbm`
 :   Uses a DBM cache file. The parameter is a relative or absolute
-    path to be used as the DBM cache file.
+    path to be used as the DBM cache file. Note that the dbm cache has
+    a size limitation for entries that is too small for OCSP responses
+    or proxy session data.
 
     Example: `dbm:cache/gnutls_cache`