From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Sep 21 9:40:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4124137B43C for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:40:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 79B581C41; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:40:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:40:13 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: James Housley Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named virtual hosts Message-ID: <20000921124013.K66839@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <20000912184042.D55208@bsd.planetwe.com> <20000916041934.B769@hand.dotat.at> <20000921111406.A11386@mithrandr.moria.org> <39CA3425.BA0E4B4@thehousleys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <39CA3425.BA0E4B4@thehousleys.net>; from jim@thehousleys.net on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:15:33PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message