[jboss-user] [Tomcat, HTTPD, Servlets & JSP] - TLS extension for hostnames
EricJava
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Tue Nov 18 19:42:19 EST 2008
TLS has a cool feature which makes it easy to do virtual hosts, with TLS, all on one IP address. From: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3546.html
3.1. Server Name Indication
|
| TLS does not provide a mechanism for a client to tell a server the
| name of the server it is contacting. It may be desirable for clients
| to provide this information to facilitate secure connections to
| servers that host multiple 'virtual' servers at a single underlying
| network address.
|
| In order to provide the server name, clients MAY include an extension
| of type "server_name" in the (extended) client hello. The
| "extension_data" field of this extension SHALL contain
| "ServerNameList" where:
|
Does JBoss AS support this? It would be very handy to have multiple virt. hosts on one IP address and let them use their own SSL certs, but I can't figure out a way to configure that within the embedded Tomcat and I don't even know if it supports it.
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