26 Jul
2002
26 Jul
'02
8:05 a.m.
Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de> wrote:
... virtual hosts cannot be supported for SSL "due to the nature of the SSL protocol", only IP based virtual hosts.
In my own simple mind I have this filed as a catch22 class thing: to do virtual SSL hosts on one IP a server would need to know which virtual host is targetted to serve the right certificate. But it can't do that without negotiating with a certificate to get access to the clear datastream first ... N.