Why is HTTPS 10 times slower compared to HTTP

Hi,

I am facing a performance issue with libwww and ssl
support. I have tried to connect to the same server
with http and https but https performs very bad.

I also see that Keep-Alive does not have any effect on
connection. Libwww and SSL always try to make new
connection and exchange certs/keys with the server on
every new request made (within 2-3 seconds!)

Is this the normal behaviour? I am initializing SSL as
below.

HTSSL_protMethod_set (HTSSL_V23);
HTSSL_verifyDepth_set (2);
HTSSLhttps_init(YES);

Please suggest if there is anthing special to be done
while initializing SSL?



		
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