On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Andrew Pollock wrote:

> On 29.01.2002 at 11:12:02, "Julian C. Dunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Nope... there's no more to it than that. At least that's the experience
> > I've had. Apache will complain (warn) that your CN doesn't match the name
> > of the server, but everything works fine. I'm using Apache 1.3.12 with
> > modssl 2.6.6.
>
> Hmm, I'm not aware of any complaints from Apache, however Internet
> Explorer (6) is complaining that the name on the certificate doesn't
> match the hostname...

Is that when you go to https://sitename.com as opposed to
https://www.sitename.com/? In the former case, I believe the wildcard will
not work because there is nothing for the "*" to match.

Of course, you could just write a mod_rewrite rule (or use another such
mechanism) to force people to use the latter version.

- Julian

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