Storing SSL sessions in Android

Question

Im pretty new to SSL, however in making an SSL request, how would i prevent the "handshake" happening each time i call an HTTPS url in Android. Is it possible to just store the SSL session?

Answer 1

How are you making your requests? Are you seeing separate handshakes for every new request to a particular host and how frequently?

I would think that the underlying security libraries on Android, much like Sun's JSSE, would automatically cache the TLS session ID when you're working with a particular host.