implementing SNI SSL ?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 08:57:56AM +0100, Ed W wrote:

> Hi, to recap on a previous thread - is nginx currently able to handle 
> SNI based ssl virtual hosts (assuming latest 0.98 openssl)?
> 
> My host only allows a small number of IPs (8) and I have a bunch of 
> currently unencrypted services (due to lack of free IPs) which might 
> benefit from upgrading to SSL where it's supported , ie Vista IE7 / 
> Firefox, etc (currently > 50% of my visitors)

nginx supports SNI since 0.5.23, it was tested against development
OpenSSL 0.9.9 year ago. OpenSSL SNI support had been merged to 0.9.8f,
however I did not test it: it might be changed while merging.
Also, note that SNI in OpenSSL 0.9.8 is not built by default.


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