[ILUG] Class C Addresses

[Colm Buckley]

On Wed 07 Nov 2001 18:31, Paul Jakma wrote:

> https can be done with named virtual hosts.

No, it can't, because the certificates are exchanged before any of the
connection data is sent - in particular, before the HTTP request is
sent.

The certficate is associated with an IP/port combination *only*, so it
is not possible to do pure name-based VH with HTTPS.

           Colm

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