3.6.3 Session Tickets

To resume a TLS session the server normally store some state. This complicates deployment, and typical situations the client can cache information and send it to the server instead. The Session Ticket extension implements this idea, and it is documented in RFC 5077 [TLSTKT] (see section Bibliography).

Clients can enable support for TLS tickets with gnutls_session_ticket_enable_client and servers use gnutls_session_ticket_key_generate to generate a key and gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server to enable the extension. Clients resume sessions using the ticket using the normal session resume functions, resume.