On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 02:32:11AM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: > > On Oct 5, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Ryan Coleman <ryan.cole...@cwis.biz> wrote: > >> > >> On Oct 5, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> > >>> Nowadays there is also the possibility of RFC2817 -- in essence > >>> you start an ordinary HTTP session, then issue a STARTTLS command > >>> and upgrade the connection to encrypted. This will allow > >>> name-based virtual hosting with TLS to work as intended. > >>> Unfortunately, last I checked, while apache supports this, most > >>> web browsers do not. > >> > >> Throwing just my two bits in: Apache supports it, as does Firefox, > >> and nothing else (maybe Safari does...). > >> > >> IE definitely does not. I looked into this before opting to go > >> multiple static IPs at home for my webservers. > >> > > > > IE 7+ does however support RFC 3546(SNI), which is the defacto > > standard for accomplishing SSL name based vhosts. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication > > Thanks all for the confirmation and information on apache, vhosts, HTTPS, and reverse proxying. In my situation, the clients are custom written applications on embedded systems. I don't know much about their ability to conform with the latest RFC's but my guess is they will not.
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