Re: [xri] SimpleSign Implementation

[Victor Grey <victor@idcommons.org>]

>>> This is not actually true anymore - you can use the SNI extension to
>>> share an IP address. Because legacy browsers don't support it, it
>>> isn't so great for websites, but for a specialist application like
>>> retrieving XRD it would work just fine.
>>>
>> Are they implemented widely in common scripting language libraries?
> Yes.
>> Are they implemented widely in the current http servers?
> Yes.

According to this Wikipedia article:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication>
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.
Microsoft Internet Information Server IIS (As of 2007).

=vg