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Date:      Tue, 5 Oct 2010 02:05:03 -0500
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org>
Subject:   Re: OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy
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On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz> wrote:

>
> On Oct 5, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
> > Nowadays there is also the possibility of RFC2817 -- in essence you
> > start an ordinary HTTP session, then issue a STARTTLS command and
> > upgrade the connection to encrypted.  This will allow name-based virtual
> > hosting with TLS to work as intended.  Unfortunately, last I checked,
> > while apache supports this, most web browsers do not.
>
> Throwing just my two bits in: Apache supports it, as does Firefox, and
> nothing else (maybe Safari does...).
>
> IE definitely does not. I looked into this before opting to go multiple
> static IPs at home for my
> webservers._______________________________________________
>

IE 7+ does however support RFC 3546(SNI), which is the defacto standard for
accomplishing SSL name based vhosts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication

-- 
Adam Vande More



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