Re: Re[3]: Web certificate pricing?

[Dave Warren]

> WXW> The wildcard cert is the only way to do Namebased Virtual hosting
with
> WXW> SSL.  Since they all use the same cert, it actually does work.
>
> gold star to the first person to describe *why* name-based hosting
> doesn't work with SSL.

Gold star? Sweeeeeet.

The SSL connection (And verification) is established before the hostname has
a chance to be sent.  As a result, the server can only have one cert
assigned for any given IP/port pair.


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