Plain text please...

Assume you set up two or more name-based VHs on port 80 (plain HTTP). Then you 
set up a single SSL VH on port 443. Now, HTTPS to any domain will go to the SSL 
VH.

SSL will "work" in that you won't get an error and the session will be 
encrypted but you will get *warnings* that the URL in the browser doesn't match 
the site name in the SSL certificate. This is not very useful for e-commerce... 
(would you type in your credit card number on a site called "nice-shop" when 
the browser was warning you that the cert belonged to "nasty-hacker"?)

If you try to add additional SSL VHs, apache will always use the certificate 
from the first SSL VH to establish a session so you still get warnings.

Rgds,
Owen Boyle
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Di Croce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Donnerstag, 24. November 2005 00:43
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https problem



I assume a.com and b.com resolve to the same IP address. 
If so, https to either domain will go to <IP address>:443.
Remember that SSL cannot use the Hostname to distinguish sites, so the two 
requests look the same to apache and so you get the first VH on IP:443.

Rgds,
Owen Boyle
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I have been planning to build a server with multiple virtual hosts. The idea is 
that each host could have web stores, but when it came time to actually get 
credit card info, they would forward you to the one host on the box that was on 
port 443 (via an https link)... This page would get the card number and process 
the order... Of course, when they go to this page, the domain in the URL in 
their browser would change... but thats OK...

This should work, right?



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