In <list-11330746@2rosenthals.com>, on 12/08/24
at 03:07 PM, "Peter Moylan" <ecs-isp@2rosenthals.com> said:
Hi Peter,
>This seems to be the answer. The Wikipedia article on SNI says that the
>feature was introduced in 2003, to solve precisely the problem I'm asking
>about, so it's not surprising that Apache can do it.
>In fact the Wikipedia article effectively says that, prior to SNI, secure
>servers could only host one domain, because of the difficulty of getting
>certifcates that covered multiple domains.
2003 was long ago, so support for SNI on the server must be almost
universal these days.
>(I am now starting to understand that the whole point of "hello
>extensions" in TLS is to work around bugs in the original SSL design.)
It's also to allow for the fact that nothing is going to remain perfect
unless the world stops changing.