[jdev] virtual hosting and certificate checking

[Trejkaz]

On Friday 03 March 2006 23:10, Richard Dobson wrote:
> > 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.

But wouldn't it then be easier to endorse using _only_ the encrypted version?

TX

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