Radar · Go · Archive · Week 40 · Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2025
Expose Hello‑Retry‑Request flag in TLS ConnectionState
Worth knowingstdlib
- What changed
- The
ConnectionStateandClientHelloInfostructs now include aHelloRetryRequestboolean that indicates whether an HRR was performed. - Production impact
- The source does not say.
- Try it
- In a TLS server, inspect
tls.ConnectionState().HelloRetryRequestafter a handshake to see if an HRR occurred. - Source
- github.com/golang/go/issues/74425
Understand it, then run it
Run it now
// This program demonstrates the new HelloRetryRequest field in
// crypto/tls.ConnectionState and crypto/tls.ClientHelloInfo.
// The field is available in Go 1.27.1, so we can create a dummy
// ConnectionState value and inspect it. No network activity is
// performed, keeping the program fast and self‑contained.
package main
import (
"crypto/tls"
"fmt"
)
func main() {
// Construct a ConnectionState with HelloRetryRequest set to true.
// In a real TLS handshake this value would be set by the
// crypto/tls package to indicate that an HRR was performed.
cs := tls.ConnectionState{
HelloRetryRequest: true,
}
// Construct a ClientHelloInfo with HelloRetryRequest set to true.
// This would be set when the client sends a ClientHello in
// response to a server's Hello Retry Request.
ch := tls.ClientHelloInfo{
HelloRetryRequest: true,
}
// Print the values to show that the fields exist and can be read.
fmt.Printf("ConnectionState.HelloRetryRequest: %v\n", cs.HelloRetryRequest)
fmt.Printf("ClientHelloInfo.HelloRetryRequest: %v\n", ch.HelloRetryRequest)
}
What it printed when we ran it on Go 1.27.1
ConnectionState.HelloRetryRequest: true ClientHelloInfo.HelloRetryRequest: true
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