SSL_SESSION_get_protocol_version(3ssl)

SSL_SESSION_get_protocol_version3ssl

Get and set the session protocol version

Usage

 #include <openssl/ssl.h>
 int SSL_SESSION_get_protocol_version(const SSL_SESSION *s);
 int SSL_SESSION_set_protocol_version(SSL_SESSION *s, int version);

Overview

SSL_SESSION_get_protocol_version() returns the protocol version number used by session s.

SSL_SESSION_set_protocol_version() sets the protocol version associated with the SSL_SESSION object s to the value version. This value should be a version constant such as TLS1_3_VERSION etc. For example, this could be used to set up a session based PSK (see SSL_CTX_set_psk_use_session_callback(3)).

Return values

SSL_SESSION_get_protocol_version() returns a number indicating the protocol version used for the session; this number matches the constants e.g. TLS1_VERSION, TLS1_2_VERSION or TLS1_3_VERSION.

Note that the SSL_SESSION_get_protocol_version() function does not perform a null check on the provided session s pointer.

SSL_SESSION_set_protocol_version() returns 1 on success or 0 on failure.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

History

The SSL_SESSION_get_protocol_version() function was added in OpenSSL 1.1.0. The SSL_SESSION_set_protocol_version() function was added in OpenSSL 1.1.1.

From openssl 3.6.5-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.