[Zope] Apache, Zope, and SSL with dynamic IP?

Nigel Head nhead@houbits.com
Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:05:04 +0200


Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de> wrote:

> ... virtual hosts cannot be supported for SSL "due to the nature
> of the SSL protocol", only IP based virtual hosts.

In my own simple mind I have this filed as a catch22 class thing: to do virtual SSL hosts on one IP a server would need to know which virtual host is targetted to serve the right certificate. But it can't do that without negotiating with a certificate to get access to the clear datastream first ... 

N.