Hello Dave,
Saturday, August 04, 2001, 9:56:13 AM, Dave Warren wrote:
>> 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.
> Just out of curiosity, wouldn't a wildcard certificate be compatible with
> name based hosting?
> I could run http://www.devilsplayground.net/ and
> http://webmail.devilsplayground.net/ on the same IP/port if my certificate
> was for *.devilsplayground.net couldn't I?
> Or is the wildcard part handled by the server, rather then the browser?
With a wildcard cert you can use namebased virtual hosting for SSL,
but only for the *.domain.com hostnames. Each unique certificate requires
its own unique IP/Port combination.
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