d and application data can no longer be sent or received.</p>

<p>Once shutdown is complete a TLS application must clean up by freeing the SSL object.</p>

<h1 id="FURTHER-READING">FURTHER READING</h1>

<p>See <a href="../man7/ossl-guide-tls-client-block.html">ossl-guide-tls-client-block(7)</a> to see an example of applying these concepts in order to write a simple TLS client based on a blocking socket. See <a href="../man7/ossl-guide-quic-introduction.html">ossl-guide-quic-introduction(7)</a> for an introd