Hi there,
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Jeff W. Boote wrote:
> The trick is that you have to be able to use a regex for your server's CN in the
> server certificate to keep browsers from complaining... This works well for
> sites that multiple "related" web sites, but of course doesn't work for the
> general ISP case. (I.E. I have www(.|.*.)ucar.edu in my certificate - this
> allows our top-level domain, as well as all of our "second tier" levels of
> administration to be proxied by the same SSL virtual host.) Basically, this can
> work as long as you can come up with a CN in your certificate that will match
> all the hosts you want to serve.
Now *that*'s cool. My only question is: did Microsoft manage to write a regex
handler into Internet Explorer(s) that works with this sort of thing? If they
did, I'm frankly (and a little sarcastically) astonished. Do all the "normal"
browsers support this? Consistently?
Cheers,
Geoff
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