On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 07:17:35AM -0700, Scott Francis wrote: > On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 08:25:25AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Odd. I've run multiple "https:" sites on one IP. The browser > > will complain about the certificate but you can always have > > a different certificate for each site while using one IP address. > > (Correct me if I'm wrong!)
You're wrong. :) The SSL exchange happens before the HTTP protocol over SSL can begin, and so the server has no idea which cert to send; or more practically, just has one cert configured per (host,port). There is a defined mechanism to do HTTPS over port 80 using a mechanism called Upgrade and inband TLS. This will make it possible to do name based vhosts and encryption, because you provide a Host: header along with the Upgrade: TLS/1.0 header. > According to http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html (thanks > Gerald), name-based hosting cannot be used with SSL due to the nature of the > SSL protocol. Yep. -- David Terrell | "It is helpful to indicate in advance whether the Nebcorp Prime Minister | printers will be supporting standard A4 paper or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the strange but patriotic American 8.5x11 inch http://wwn.nebcorp.com/ | paper." - draft-ymbk-termroom-op-06