Changeset 1839

Timestamp:

08/15/08 01:08:09 (3 months ago)

Author:

taher

Message:

Files:

cherokee/trunk/doc/other_goodies.txt

r1816	r1839
88	88	With Cherokee you can cope with this and much more. With Cherokee, its
89	89	easier done than said.
	90
	91	[[ssl-vhosts]]
	92	SSL Virtual Hosts
	93	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	94	You might have been told elsewhere that named virtual hosts in SSL
	95	cannot be supported because a web server cannot see the hostname
	96	header when the SSL request is being processed. Technically this might
	97	have been correct in the past. The first thing that the server has to
	98	do is to connect with the other end by using SSL/TLS, so at that
	99	point, before it receives the HTTP client request, the crypto 'magic'
	100	already needs to have happened.
	101
	102	However, nothing is forever.. and that applies to SSL/TLS connections
	103	as well. Cherokee elegantly respins the SSL layer once it knows the
	104	virtual server, and the magic occurs: SSL supporting several
	105	certificates on the same IP address and port.