Andrew,

  reuse of the same handle while in the same PHP script execution
  works fine for me too. You open the connection then do a few SSL
  requests through that connection so that there is only one
  connection establishment and one SSL handshake.

  But what i'm talking about is a global ssl session id cache which
  would allow many instances of a PHP script to reuse already
  established SSL connections. Something like the Mysql permanent
  connections.

  I have a few scripts which are querying very often a distant HTTPS
  web site. But at each query it has to go through a new connection
  establishment and a new SSL handshake. A global SSL id session cache
  would make win some time and a lot of CPU resources.

  Alex.

AH> I actually have a client with php/mysql running on an NT box where we
AH> use cURL to post into another site. To accomplish what we needed
AH> required 2-3 posts within the same session. I instantiated the cURL
AH> handle once, and used the same handle for multiple posts, capturing
AH> return values each time.

AH> I then tried the same trick on a Unix BSD server and it wouldn't work.
AH> I didn't realize it wasn't supposed to work!

AH> I think the NT was running php 4.1, and the BSD had PHP 4.2 or something
AH> like that.

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