idp on port 80 only ?

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Apr 18 19:21:06 EDT 2013


Peter Schober <peter.schober at univie.ac.at> writes:
> * Ian Young <ian at iay.org.uk> [2013-04-18 21:07]:

>> Of course you *can* configure your web server to implement TLS over
>> port 80, or any other port.  It doesn't help with your problem because
>> what people tend to charge for is not https per se, but the individual
>> IP address you need for it.

> So SNI to the rescue?  Again, doable in constrained deployments, not
> ready for large-scale yet.

SNI looks doable if and only if you can declare you no longer care about
Windows XP.  That's about the vintage that matters.  We're fast getting to
that point, but we're not there yet.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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