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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:45:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:      jim <jim@jwweeks.com>
To:        Mark Sergeant <msergeant@looksmart.net>
Cc:        Tyler <tjr@cagelink.com>, Chris Cook <ccook@tcworks.net>, Baris Simsek <simsek@bimel.com.tr>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VHost SSL
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204102030590.1257-100000@veager.jwweeks.com>
In-Reply-To: <1018483171.415.3.camel@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net>

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On 11 Apr 2002, Mark Sergeant wrote:

> using apache-modssl you can only have one certificate per ip address but
> are able to have multiple virtual hosts on that 1 ip address, the
> unfortunate thing is they will all be using 1 certificate and thus will
> alert the user that the certificate is invalid.

This is a much used method to get around this problem, and one that is
supported by most shopping cart software.  Normal the cart script, or any
script for that matter, hands the client off to the secure URL during the
passing of sensitive data only (i.e. credit card info).

Example:

https://securesite.net/ = /usr/local/www/securesite/
http://commonsite.net/ = /usr/local/www/commonsite/

Secure link to commonsite.net from within /usr/local/www/securesite/:

https://securesite.net/commonsite/ = ln -s /usr/local/www/commonsite/ 
/usr/local/www/securesite/commonsite/ = /usr/local/www/commonsite/

Maybe a scenario you can put to use.

Regards,

--
Jim Weeks


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