North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re[2]: Question regarding web hosting ip addressing
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 07:17:35 -0700 Scott Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > a different certificate for each site while using one IP address. > > (Correct me if I'm wrong!) > According to http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html (thanks > Gerald), name-based hosting cannot be used with SSL due to the nature of > the > SSL protocol. correct. there's a specific technical problem due to the way that the https protocol is designed; it's a chicken-and-egg problem. specifically, name based identification of sites is based on the HTTP host request-header field. in https, the certificates are processed before the Host request-header is transmitted; Host is supposed to be inside the encrypted tunnel. a different design might have permitted named based https identification of virtual web site, but they did what they did. richard -- Richard Welty [email protected] Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security
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