[Zope3-dev] Re: Other (than GET and POST) HTTP Methods

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Barry Pederson wrote
> I don't believe you can do name-based virtual hosting with SSL since you'd 
> need to know the name in the request before you knew what key to use to 
> decrypt the request - kind of a catch-22.  You'd have to use IP-based virtual
> hosting.

That's correct. There is an 'UPGRADE' command specified in RFC 2817 that
allows a client to make a normal HTTP connection (including the Host: header)
and then upgrade to an SSL connection, but I don't know of any browser that
supports it.


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