Re: Why are developers choosing to...

[Greg Spath <gkspath () armstrong com>]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:52:40 -0500
"Adrian Grigorof" <adi () grigorof com> wrote:

> One reason on IIS is that you can only have one TCP/443, SSL secured
> website per IP address. Many hosting companies are using "host
> headers" to host several websites with the same IP address.

That is the way SSL works, and is not limited to IIS web servers.  You
have to define virtual addresses for any server that hosts several
virtual sites. You need to do this with any reverse proxies as well.

--g

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Greg Spath <gkspath () armstrong com>                        
Infrastructure Security Analyst    
Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
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