Once upon a time, Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com> said:
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:40:30 -0400, Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> wrote:
SSL and FTP are techincal justifications for an IP per site.
No they aren't. SSL will work just fine as a name-based virtual host with any modern webserver / browser. (Server Name Indication (SNI) [RFC3546, sec 3.1])
What is your definition of "modern"? According to Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication>: Unsupported Operating Systems and Browsers The following combinations do not support SNI. * Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 or 7 * Konqueror/KDE in any version * Apache with mod_ssl: there is a patch under review by httpd team for inclusion in future releases, after 2.2.11. See doco at [1] * Microsoft Internet Information Server IIS (As of 2007). Seeing as WinXP/IE is still the most common combination, SNI is a long time away from being useful. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.