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This document describes the basic concepts of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, and provides a sample transaction and packet capture.
The basic unit of data in SSL is a record. Each record consists of a five-byte record header, followed by data.
| Type | Version | Length | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T | VH | VL | LH | LL |
There are four record types in SSL:
The record version is a 16-bits value and is formatted in network order.