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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bill Janssen</b> <<a href="mailto:janssen@parc.com">janssen@parc.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> However, there is an alternative to using multiple IP addresses:<br>> one could also use multiple "subject alternative names", and create<br>> a certificate that lists them all.<br><br>Unfortunately, much of the client code that does the hostname
<br>verification is wrapped up in gullible Web browsers or Java HTTPS<br>libraries that swallowed RFC 2818 whole, and not easily accessible by<br>applications. Does any of it recognize and accept "subject<br>alternative name"?
</blockquote><div><br>For what it's worth, when I last looked at this (a year or so ago), only a few fringe browsers on mobile phones had issues with accepting our wildcard certificate, and some of those only because they didn't trust the root authority.
<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Thomas Wouters <<a href="mailto:thomas@python.org">thomas@python.org</a>><br><br>Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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