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Virtual Hosts and SSL

Posted May 1, 2012 10:12 UTC (Tue) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: Virtual Hosts and SSL by dlang
Parent article: Buculei: A history of Mozilla browsers design

FYI it's "server name indication". I believe the only significant client that can't use it is Internet Explorer on Windows XP, due to MS' unwillingness to backport the SNI feature to XP's SSL library.

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Posted May 1, 2012 10:46 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

>I believe the only significant client that can't use it is Internet Explorer on Windows XP, due to MS' unwillingness to backport the SNI feature to XP's SSL library

Also Chrome on Windows XP, because the Chrome team like to use the native platform features where possible.

(What's that you say? They should bundle their own libraries? :P)