On Thursday 06 September 2007 13:04, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> On Thursday 06 September 2007 12:39, Graeme Fowler wrote:
> > With a webserver, the client sends a "Host: foo.bar.com" request header
> > (for HTTP/1.1 requests) which the server uses to determine the virtual
> > host being called.
> >
> > SMTP does not have an analogous definition. And even if it did, you
> > couldn't use multiple certificates on the same IP address - you can't
> > with a webserver, either; the request must be decoded to determine the
> > Host: header, and this means the certificate must already be selected by
> > the server. Catch-22, and a well-known one.
>
> Actually, there exists an extension ("server_name") to the TLS protocol,
> which would make this possible. It doesn't seem to be widely supported
> however.
I forgot the RFC number: 4366.
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