27 Jul
2002
27 Jul
'02
5:54 a.m.
On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 01:05, Nigel Head wrote:
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.
but if the negotiation is done by an Apache vhost before it ProxyPasses the request to Zope.... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...