[rt-users] SSL support...

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 04:23, Cerion Armour-Brown wrote:
> On Sunday 27 June 2004 23:50, fmml at cedval.org wrote:
> > Could not use rt with ssl and vhost, finally got it to work with straight
> > alias and it is now fine. Wonder what advantages there are in using
> > vhosts?
> The advantage is simply being able to run more than one site on your server.
> You can't have more that one ssl vhost (name resolution doesn't work with ssl, 
> so you can only resolve on the vhost being on port 443)... but you can have 
> other, non-ssl vhosts at the same time.

You can do IP-based vhosts with https if you can assign more than
one address to the server.  The problem with name-based vhosts
is simply that the hostname header isn't passed until after
the browser/server have agreed on the certificate(s) involved.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com