Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-22 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 08:38 AM 12/22/2004, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >* Graham Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> You forget that there is a trust issue here. SSL brings with it not only >> encryption, but certification of the data that's being sent. If the SSL >> protocol somehow allowed external unprotected an

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-22 Thread André Malo
* Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Graham Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You forget that there is a trust issue here. SSL brings with it not > > only encryption, but certification of the data that's being sent. If > > the SSL protocol somehow allowed external unprotected and untrusted > > inform

RE: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-22 Thread TAYLOR, TIM \(CONTRACTOR\)
n-specific flexibility need. RFC2616 addresses (whether you like it or not) YOUR application-specific need. regards, tt 317-510-5987 -Original Message- From: Enrico Weigelt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 9:41 AM To: dev@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: SSL + name bas

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-22 Thread Jeroen Massar
On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 15:44 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There's a well-known solution to this issue: STARTTLS. When you've > > written the RFCs and persuaded everyone to adopt them, let us know. > I dont think that current http can be extended t

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-22 Thread Klaus Wagner
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:41:08PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Sander Temme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 18, 2004, at 12:19 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > > >What fools are sitting there in the IETF ?! > > > > Fools that are highly aware of the hundreds of millions of web browser

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-22 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's a well-known solution to this issue: STARTTLS. When you've > written the RFCs and persuaded everyone to adopt them, let us know. I dont think that current http can be extended to support this. We not just only need a new port for it, also a new u

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-22 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Sander Temme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 18, 2004, at 12:19 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > >What fools are sitting there in the IETF ?! > > Fools that are highly aware of the hundreds of millions of web browser > installations out there that know nothing but the standard versions of >

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-22 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Graham Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You forget that there is a trust issue here. SSL brings with it not only > encryption, but certification of the data that's being sent. If the SSL > protocol somehow allowed external unprotected and untrusted information > (like the name of the vir

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-20 Thread Ben Laurie
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2817.txt spells out methods that the server can -insist- that an upgraded connection is used, and the client can instigate an upgraded connection as well even if the server doesn't require it. But un

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-19 Thread Graham Leggett
Sander Temme wrote: S. (Wants to know which CA signs wildcard certificates and is trusted by a reasonable fraction of the installed base. He'd love to have one.) I think Thawte do/did them - but it was a while ago when I last found out about them. They were expensive though compared to nor

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-18 Thread Sander Temme
On Dec 18, 2004, at 12:19 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: What fools are sitting there in the IETF ?! Fools that are highly aware of the hundreds of millions of web browser installations out there that know nothing but the standard versions of SSL/TLS and whose users cannot be forced to upgrade. Also,

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-18 Thread Andy Armstrong
Enrico Weigelt wrote: ... its time to completely redesign HTTP ... Hey Enrico, it might be quicker if you listed the things you -do- like :)

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-18 Thread Graham Leggett
Enrico Weigelt wrote: What fools are sitting there in the IETF ?! Couldn't they just define a new protocol (probably running on its own port) which allows specifying additional headers *before* SSL handshake starts or another SSL version, which allows passing additional info from client->server bef

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2817.txt > > spells out methods that the server can -insist- that an upgraded > connection is used, and the client can instigate an upgraded > connection as well even if the server doesn't require it. > > But under n

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-17 Thread Joseph Dane
"William A. Rowe, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Using a wildcard cert, this simply works, as long as the > common name pattern matches all server names. are wildcard certs generally accepted by the current cohort of browsers? -- joe

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-17 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 11:23 AM 12/17/2004, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >hmm, is it somehow possible to work with multiple cert on the >same socket ? does the SSL handshake leave any chance that probably >more then one cert can be tried, until someone matches ? No. That isn't in the spec, and would be horribly ineffici

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Dale Ghent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > With SSL, this HTTP request is already encrypted. The server will need > to have a way to figure out what SSL key to use to decrypt that HTTP > request, but can't do it unless it knows what host/site address the > request is for so it can use the

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > Using another spec, connection upgrade TLS, it works perfectly, > but that spec is only supported by some printer drivers. No > http client supports TLS upgrade that I'm aware of. where're the differences between SSL and TLS handshake ? cu

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-17 Thread Mads Toftum
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 05:27:50AM +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > is name based virtual hosting ig. generally possible with SSL/https ? > The SSL faq has the explanation - http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/ssl/ssl_faq.html#vhosts2 vh Mads Toftum -- `Darn it, who spiked my coffee with

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-16 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 10:27 PM 12/16/2004, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >Hi folks, > >is name based virtual hosting ig. generally possible with SSL/https ? It's simultaneously impossible and entirely doable. https handshakes to a cert's common name before the Host: name field is determined, which

Re: SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-16 Thread Dale Ghent
On Dec 16, 2004, at 11:27 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, is name based virtual hosting ig. generally possible with SSL/https ? No As you know, name-based virtual hosting requires that the client supply the desired site's hostname in the Host: header of the HTTP request. With SSL, this

SSL + name based virtual hosting

2004-12-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: virtual hosting

2003-10-15 Thread André Malo
* john smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually I thought you should have kept your mouth shut > rather than bullying somebody else. > You clearly could do with going to the user line before you "promote" > yourself > and or demote others. ;( Huh? I can't see where he was bullying someone. Th

Re: virtual hosting

2003-10-15 Thread Cliff Woolley
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, john smith wrote: > Actually I thought you should have kept your mouth shut rather than > bullying somebody else. You clearly could do with going to the user line > before you "promote" yourself and or demote others. ;( I'm very confused by this statement... was I bullying?

Re: virtual hosting

2003-10-15 Thread john smith
Actually I thought you should have kept your mouth shut rather than bullying somebody else. You clearly could do with going to the user line before you "promote" yourself and or demote others. ;( [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Joshua Slive wrote: Oops. Actually, the argument

Re: virtual hosting

2003-10-15 Thread Cliff Woolley
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Joshua Slive wrote: > Oops. Actually, the argument to should match the argument > to NameVirtualHost; ie. an IP address or "*". In this case, the two > directives don't match, which could be part of the problem. > Hostnames shouldn't be used because they create unnecessary

Re: virtual hosting

2003-10-15 Thread Joshua Slive
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Cliff Woolley wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, EMRE KUNT (Ebi Bsk. - Sistem Prog) wrote: > > > I added the lines, below, to httpd.conf file. It doesnt work. What is wrong? > > Please direct this kind of question to the user support mailing list; see > http://httpd.apache.org/use

Re: virtual hosting

2003-10-15 Thread Cliff Woolley
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, EMRE KUNT (Ebi Bsk. - Sistem Prog) wrote: > I added the lines, below, to httpd.conf file. It doesnt work. What is wrong? Please direct this kind of question to the user support mailing list; see http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html . (Hint: your lines should not have a '*

virtual hosting

2003-10-15 Thread EMRE KUNT (Ebi Bsk. - Sistem Prog)
com on his browser, i want my Apache to serve from "apache_home/htdocs/host2/" directory. To achieve this goal, i use name based virtual hosting (is this wright choice?). I added the lines, below, to httpd.conf file. It doesnt work. What is wrong? Thanks and best regards, Emre KU

Name based virtual hosting

2001-10-26 Thread Rod Roark
I hope y'all don't mind my posting here as I'm not an Apache developer. However I think this may be of interest anyway, and only you guys are likely to know the answer. I'm aiming to be a sort of ISP, providing, among other things, name based virtual hosting. I.e., there&#

Re: Virtual hosting: comments requested

2001-10-26 Thread Rod Roark
Thanks Cliff... that was the kind of feedback I was looking for. Guess I'll have to wait for 2.0. BTW you guys are the greatest! -- Rod On Thursday 25 October 2001 06:21 pm, Cliff Woolley wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Rod Roark wrote: > > Um, how? It's clear that all scripts will run as user a

Re: Virtual hosting: comments requested

2001-10-26 Thread Cliff Woolley
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Rod Roark wrote: > Um, how? It's clear that all scripts will run as user apache, > but the whole point is that if you don't know the other user's > documentroot name Well, I'd kind of missed that you were counting on the 711 directory permissions. But still... > then you

Re: Virtual hosting: comments requested

2001-10-25 Thread Rod Roark
Cliff Woolley said: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Rod Roark wrote: > >> I did come up with a possible solution. However I'm not sure if it's complete >> garbage, mildly useful, or really interesting. That's why I'm posting here. >> >> Then, /opt/www/users looks like this: >> >> drwx--x--x root r

Re: Virtual hosting: comments requested

2001-10-25 Thread Cliff Woolley
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Rod Roark wrote: > I did come up with a possible solution. However I'm not sure if it's > complete garbage, mildly useful, or really interesting. That's why > I'm posting here. > > Then, /opt/www/users looks like this: > > drwx--x--x root root . > drwxrwx--- s

Virtual hosting: comments requested

2001-10-25 Thread Rod Roark
OK, time for a break from the normal routine. :-) This concerns "name based" virtual hosting. I.e., with just one IP address. The problem is how do you give your users access to PHP, servlets, CGI, etc. and still keep them somewhat secure from each other's potential misch

Fw: general/8118: IPv6 based "virtual" hosting don't work (one httpd serves more IPv6 addresses) (fwd)

2001-09-24 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
y, September 22, 2001 11:41 AM Subject: Re: general/8118: IPv6 based "virtual" hosting don't work (one httpd serves more IPv6 addresses) (fwd) > Hi, > > because I don't know how to update an existing (still occuring) bug, > here is more information - ho