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add a note about cert retention on TLS session resumption (to fix #1992)
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bc-pi committed May 13, 2022
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block of the requests it sends vs. requests it receives by advertising a value to its
clients that is sufficiently smaller so as to allow for the addition of certificate data.

## TLS Session Resumption

Some TLS implementations do not retain client certificate information when resuming.
Providing inconsistent values of Client-Cert and Client-Cert-Chain when resuming might
lead to errors, so implementations that are unable to provide these values SHOULD
either disable resumption for connections with client certificates or initially omit a
`Client-Cert` or `Client-Cert-Chain` field if it might not be available after resuming.

# Security Considerations {#sec}

The header fields described herein enable a TTRP and backend or origin server to
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- Rifaat Shekh-Yusef
- Travis Spencer
- Nick Sullivan
- Willy Tarreau
- Martin Thomson
- Peter Wu
- Hans Zandbelt
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