On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:05:08PM +0100, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 11:38:49AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > >> How does multiple A records solve the problem? Can an SSL > >> certificate list multiple domains it is valid for, maybe? > > > >No, the domain name is in the commonName field and there's no system > >for putting multiple domain names there. > >Some clients support wildcards, but most do not. > >You're completely right that one IP is required per SSL (virtual) > >host name. > > The host name is listed in the certificate's CN field. The hostname > can resolve in DNS to several A records.
Yes, indeed. I don't believe this was the issue though. The problem is that name based virtual web servers are impossible to implement using a single certificate or even a single IP address. For multiple SSL-secured virtual web hosts one certificate and (at least) one IP-address is required per virtual hostname. This has very little to do with IMAP however. :) //Peter
