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Re: IPv6 and HTTPS


From: jeff adams <jeff.adams () bancvue com>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:46:15 -0500

On 04/25/2013 09:32 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Hubbard"<dhubbard () dino hostasaurus com>

The web server has to support it too, which means compiling
apache with SNI support and there are of course plenty of
hosts running old apache.

Well, sure, but for the hoster, it's a direct benefit, not an externality;
they have motive to fix it.

Sort of. Consider though that any clients of an SNI configured website
which don't support SNI will likely experience cert name mismatch
warnings, which is usually construed as a Bad Thing.

So in practice, there's not a lot of benefit/motive to support SNI
server side...

Cheers,
-- jra

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