Re: certificate

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 07:23 PM 2/21/00 ,  GSM wrote:
> Alan Mead wrote:
> > The way it was explained to me is that the name of the site gets decrypted
> > too late for name-based redirection.  Now you can have multiple name-based
> > virtual hosts and a single SSL virtual host but it's cheating to say that
> > it's name-based because it actually monitors all connections on port 443
> > (regardless of name).
>
> I am enlightened.  I have corrected the error of my ways.

To bad, I was hoping you had a work-around.  You can thank Ed Kubitias who 
explained it to me when I didn't have a clue :)  I suppose that in the 
e-commerce context that SSL is often used (i.e., only for the "cash 
register") you could set up multiple port-based secure servers--they're 
always going to come to the SSL host from a link that the customer 
controls, right?  Though some clients behind a firewall might have trouble 
with non-standard ports...

-Alan
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