Re[5]: Web certificate pricing?

[Joseph McDonald]

>> gold star to the first person to describe *why* name-based hosting
>> doesn't work with SSL.

DW> Just out of curiosity, wouldn't a wildcard certificate be compatible with
DW> name based hosting?

DW> I could run http://www.devilsplayground.net/ and
DW> http://webmail.devilsplayground.net/ on the same IP/port if my certificate
DW> was for *.devilsplayground.net couldn't I?

Ooops, my statement was not 100% correct. It will work if the
*default* server is of the same domain in the cert. What doesn't work
is namebased vhosts that have different domains.

but if you get a wildcard cert and all hosts are in the same domain
and it's the default server then it should work.

Also, you can probably get name based hosting to work with ssl if you
put each one on a separate port, but some of your visitors behind
firewalls may not be able to get to you...

regards,
-joe