Re: [xri] SimpleSign Implementation

[Ben Laurie <benl@google.com>]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Victor Grey <victor@idcommons.org> wrote:
>>>> 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

Browsers are irrelevant.

> Apache with mod_ssl: there is a patch under review by httpd team for
> inclusion in future releases, after 2.2.11.

I'm sure I can get this expedited if it becomes a problem.

> Microsoft Internet Information Server IIS (As of 2007).

Out of date, I believe.