Tag Archives: sni

SNI Support in Chromium OS X

As of r39934 Chromium now supports the server_name TLS extension (server name indication) in OS X (latest build). This support requires OS X 10.5.7 or later. Hopefully it’ll make its way into a dev/beta/stable release of Google Chrome itself soon. For those who are more curious than they ought to be about how I wrote [...]

SSL VHosting On The Same IP (aka SNI)

Server Name Indication (SNI), an extension to TLS, allows browsers that support it to connect to SSL hosts that do not have dedicated IPs (much like standard http virtual hosting has worked for years). This extension, however, must be supported on both the server and client side. Microsoft has not yet chosen to support it [...]