ty to handle timer events, or to respond to the availability of new data to be read from an underlying BIO, or to respond to the opportunity to write pending data to an underlying BIO.</p>

<p>SSL_handle_events() can be used only with the following types of SSL object:</p>

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<dt id="DTLS-SSL-objects">DTLS SSL objects</dt>
<dd>

<p>Using SSL_handle_events() on an SSL object being used with a DTLS method allows timeout events to be handled properly. This is equivalent to a call to <a href="../man3/DTLSv1