Hi Tony, We're looking into solutions. It's not as simple as it may first appear - in the case of a service like Amazon EC2, your server resides at only a single physical location, and so does the IP address you rent. In contrast, App Engine apps are served from IPs at Google datacenters around the globe.
-Nick Johnson On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Tony<fatd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Why not charge a monthly fee for apps to get a static IP (like Amazon > does)? Scarcity of supply seems like a bit of a cop-out to me - it's > not apparent that a majority of app engine apps require this support. > The customers you're losing because of this, however, are customers > that plan to process e-commerce transactions online without looking > like a phishing scam. Customers that make money on your service are > more likely to spend money on your service. > > On Aug 5, 3:55 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com> > wrote: >> Hi J Singh, >> >> Due to the way SSL works, this is not currently possible without >> allocating an IP address for each App Engine domain that would use SSL >> - which itself isn't very practical due to IPv4 address scarcity. >> >> The latest version of SSL supports using a single IP address for >> multiple sites with different certificates, but browser support for >> this version is not yet nearly widespread enough to make it a >> practical alternative. >> >> -Nick Johnson >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:39 AM, J Singh<j.si...@earlystageit.com> wrote: >> > For an appengine-based site,https://abc.appspot.comis currently supported >> > buthttps://www.abc.comcan not be supported. I know there is a technical >> > hurdle to cross but didn't know if any techniques had been proposed for >> > being able to usewww.abc.comwith SSL connections? >> >> > Thanks. >> >> > J Singh >> >> > Managing Director >> > Early Stage IT >> > (978) 760-2055 >> >http://www.earlystageit.com >> >> -- >> Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine > > > -- Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
