On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 11:24 -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Ondrej Sury wrote: > > > > Just a thought... Wouldn't it be possible to solve this by extending > > HTTP to support something similar to STARTTLS from IMAP/SMTP? > > Dudes, it's already published in http://rfc.net/rfc2818.html - yet it seems > my mailbox fills with another 100k of this discussion every month (mostly > on [EMAIL PROTECTED]). It's not worth reinventing twice. > > Read the RFC, and take it to your favorite browser vendor/author/project. > If open source - offer a patch already to them. > > Go solve it - quit writing here about it :) In three years after widely > distributed, we could quit deploying 1:1 IP's per host.
There is already bug in mozilla bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276813 Alternate approach is to use Server Name Indication TLS extension as specified by: http://rfc.net/rfc3546.html and covered by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116168 and it will be implemented in upcomming IE7 http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/10/22/483795.aspx Ondrej. -- Ondrej Sury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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