[plug] Debugging apache-ssl virtualhost certificates

[bob]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:58 am, James Devenish wrote:
> 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."

Ok :). this sounds promising. I'll grab a d/l and see where it takes me.

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