[plug] Debugging apache-ssl virtualhost certificates

[James Devenish]

In message <200412311948.08572.bob at fots.org.au>
on Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 07:48:08PM +0800, bob wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 07:28 pm, James Devenish wrote:
> > What I was thinking is that most modern clients can use TLS instead
> > of SSL (TLS is an RFC-based protocol that 'supersedes' SSL and has
> > done so for a number of years). I thought there might be a way with
> > TLS to start out with an HTTP connection and then upgrade it to
> > HTTPS with the host name specified. But, "I haven't thought this
> > one through..."
> Runs into the same problem eh :).

Perhaps not. RFC 2817 ("Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1", May 2000)
appears to contain the following in its abstract:

"This memo explains how to use the Upgrade mechanism in HTTP/1.1 to
initiate Transport Layer Security (TLS) over an existing TCP connection.
...
It also enables "virtual hosting", so a single HTTP + TLS server can
disambiguate traffic intended for several hostnames at a single IP
address."