Multiple HTTPS sites on one IP address, was: Re: Self-signed certificates

[ra+centos at br-online.de (Ralph Angenendt)]

Chris Croome wrote:
> Hi
> 
> It *is* now possible to have multiple HTTPS sites on one IP address and
> port 443 by putting multiple domain names into one certificate as
> SubjectAltNames, see the CAcert wiki for more info:
> 
>   http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/VhostTaskForce

Thank you very much for that information.

On the other hand that issue would be much easier if browsers and
webservers knew how to do "STARTTLS", so that the domain name the
request is going to is known by the webserver. The session *then* can be
encrypted with the key for exactly that domain.

Ralph
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