name based virtual host

Is it possible to create a ssl enabled name based virtual host ?

On Apr 16, 9:48 pm, query.c...@gmail.com wrote:
> Is it possible to create a ssl enabled name based virtual host ?


no you can't,
the SSL protocol layer stays below the HTTP protocol layer and
encapsulates HTTP. When an SSL connection (HTTPS) is established
Apache/mod_ssl has to negotiate the SSL protocol parameters with the
client. For this, mod_ssl has to consult the configuration of the
virtual server .
But in order to go to the correct virtual server Apache has to know
the Host HTTP header field. To do this, the HTTP request header has to
be read. This cannot be done before the SSL handshake is finished, but
the information is needed in order to complete the SSL handshake
phase.


-- http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/slc4/...-settings.html

zaher el siddik,
http://elsiddik.blogspot.com/

On Apr 16, 4:48 am, query.c...@gmail.com wrote:
> Is it possible to create a ssl enabled name based virtual host ?

(I'm assuming you are talking about a web server.)

RFC2817 documents a way to do this, and it was put on the standards
track way back in 2000. Sadly, support is essentially non-existent.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2817.txt

DS