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On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Umbrella Code <shane@umbrellacode.com> wrote:
It's been a few years so my memory must be rusty, but where is the https protocol dependent on the transport/SSL setup in that way?
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I can't speak for Antoine but I'm guessing he's talking about SNI:
* a VPS server hosts 2 sites with 2 certificates for "mysite.com" and "yoursite.com"
* the original TCP server has no idea which cert to use as both sites share the same IP address and port.
\* the solution is the client sends the hostname in the TLS handshake.�
So the DNS or HTTP line "host: mysite.com" is also used in the TLS layer. This example agrees with Antoine but it's in the reverse direction, so maybe he has another one in mind.
Yuval