IP aliases, effect on security?

[Andru Luvisi]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, E Frank Ball wrote:
[snip]
> Yes.  I haven't had any complaints about it not working with old
> browsers.  It works fine with Netscape 3.02, and I'm not going to check
> version 2 or mosaic.  I hear name based virtual hosting won't work for
> certain things - https/ssl maybe?  It wasn't something I used so I
> didn't worry about it.
[snip]

You can only do SSL for one domain per IP address.  Since SSL is
negotiated before HTTP starts, the server needs to send a certificate to
the client before it gets the HTTP/1.1 Host: header.

 http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_faq.html#ToC47

Andru
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