NAME

       ssl - The SSL application provides secure communication over
         sockets.

DEPENDENCIES

       The  ssl  application  uses the Erlang applications public_key and crypto to handle public
       keys and encryption, hence these applications needs to be loaded for the  ssl  application
       to   work.   In  an  embedded  environment  that  means  they  need  to  be  started  with
       application:start/[1,2] before the ssl application is started.

ENVIRONMENT

       The following application environment configuration parameters are  defined  for  the  SSL
       application. See application(3erl)for more information about configuration parameters.

       Note that the environment parameters can be set on the command line, for instance,

       erl ... -ssl protocol_version '[sslv3, tlsv1]' ....

         protocol_version = [sslv3|tlsv1] <optional>.:
           Protocol  that will be supported by started clients and servers. If this option is not
           set  it  will  default  to  all  protocols  currently  supported  by  the  erlang  ssl
           application.  Note  that  this  option  may  be  overridden  by  the version option to
           ssl:connect/[2,3] and ssl:listen/2.

         session_lifetime = integer() <optional>:
           The lifetime of session data in seconds.

         session_cb = atom() <optional>:
           Name of session  cache  callback  module  that  implements  the  ssl_session_cache_api
           behavior, defaults to ssl_session_cache.erl.

         session_cb_init_args = list() <optional>:
           List  of  arguments to the init function in session cache callback module, defaults to
           [].

SEE ALSO

       application(3erl)