[jdev] virtual hosting and certificate checking

Richard Dobson richard at dobson-i.net
Fri Mar 3 06:10:37 CST 2006


> Funnily enough, if we'd had naming in TLS from the start, there probably 
> wouldn't even *be* STARTTLS since everyone would be using the better 
> method. :-)
>   
I doubt that since the main reason STARTTLS is there is so that you can 
reuse the same port for both encrypted and unencrypted versions of a 
protocol not really so you can pass the desired hostname, thats just a 
side benefit of being able to start out unencrypted.

Richard





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