Hi, Nitin. In section 7.4.1.4 of RFC 5246 it says:
An extension type MUST NOT appear in the ServerHello unless the same extension type appeared in the corresponding ClientHello. So the answer is no. Only the client may request this. Yoav > On 16 Mar 2017, at 21:12, Nitin Shrivastav <nitin.shrivas...@broadcom.com> > wrote: > > Hello, > > This is Nitin Shrivastav, Engineering Manager at Broadcom. I have a question > on RFC 6066 Maximum Fragment Length Negotiation section > > The question i have is whether it is possible for a server to initiate the > Max fragment length negotiation. The RFC describes a scenario where a > constrained client can initiate this but in our product the server is very > tightly constrained on memory and we want to reduce the memory used for SSL > connections by forcing the clients to use reduce fragment length. We don't > have control over the clients in our scenario which are basically the > browsers like Chrome, IE etc. > > Thanks, > Nitin > _______________________________________________ > TLS mailing list > TLS@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls
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