OT: limit number of connections from browser to my server?

[Paul Rubin]

Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> writes:
>> then use TLS session resumption for additional connections.
> Thanks, I'll look into that -- I've seen the term before, but that's
> about it.
> Is it something the server tells the client to do?
> And more to the point, will all popular browsers do it?

Sorry for the slow response.  I don't remember the exact mechanism but
yes, I believe session response goes way back and should be in all
browsers.  Remember that SSL was first invented to run in browsers on
PC's of the era, that were almost as slow then as the embedded board
you're using now.

> The application is something proprietary running on proprietary
> hardware (32-bit ARM processor running a typical RTOS and a

Can you say the CPU specifics (architecture, clock speed)?  There
might be some optimized crypto code around for it.