Fair enough.  I'm fine with "we're working on solutions," as long as
it's not "sorry, wait for the world to upgrade to FF3/IE8."

On Aug 6, 10:21 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com>
wrote:
> 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.comiscurrently supported
> >> > buthttps://www.abc.comcannot 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.comwithSSL 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
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