From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Sep 21 11:35:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5191C37B43E for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:35:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13cBBV-0004fr-00; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:35:01 +0200 Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:35:01 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Bill Fumerola Cc: James Housley , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named virtual hosts Message-ID: <20000921203501.A17858@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000912184042.D55208@bsd.planetwe.com> <20000916041934.B769@hand.dotat.at> <20000921111406.A11386@mithrandr.moria.org> <39CA3425.BA0E4B4@thehousleys.net> <20000921124013.K66839@jade.chc-chimes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000921124013.K66839@jade.chc-chimes.com>; from billf@chimesnet.com on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:40:13PM -0400 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 2000-09-21 (12:40), Bill Fumerola 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. So the secret way to get IPs for virtual hosting is revealed. Thanks for the cluebat, James and Bill, Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message