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Date:      Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:40:13 -0400
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>
To:        James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net>
Cc:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: named virtual hosts
Message-ID:  <20000921124013.K66839@jade.chc-chimes.com>
In-Reply-To: <39CA3425.BA0E4B4@thehousleys.net>; from jim@thehousleys.net on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:15:33PM -0400
References:  <20000912184042.D55208@bsd.planetwe.com> <20000916041934.B769@hand.dotat.at> <20000921111406.A11386@mithrandr.moria.org> <39CA3425.BA0E4B4@thehousleys.net>

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On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:15:33PM -0400, James Housley wrote:

> > Why not?
> > 
> The SSL specification does not allow it. 
> https://www.thawte.com/support/server/apachessl.html and look at #8

Summary:
Chicken/egg. You need a certificate to make a connection, you need a
connection to determine which name based vhost you want, you need the
name of the vhost to pick which certificate to use.

-- 
Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc.
                billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org





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