Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: > Nelson B wrote: >> Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: >>> ...it will take some time until real hosting providers >>> can rely on that and deploy without fear...just imagine supporting only >>> 40% of all clients/browsers ;-) >>> >> That's 40% more than they support today, evidently.
> LOL...you mean todays hosting providers are providing support to 40% of > their clients already? ;-) No, I mean that today, very few hosting providers provide any SSL server support at all, or do so only at greatly increased cost related to assigning a fixed IP address, due to the perception that fixed IP addresses are still required for https. I don't know of ANY hosting providers that even attempt to use certs that include an amalgamation of served host names. Consequently there are very few, almost no, https servers (~ 0%) operated by hosting providers today. If servers began to support SNI, and hosting providers allowed their customers to provide certs for their individual virtual servers without the cost of a fixed IP address, then, even if only 40% of the browser users were able to make use of it, that would be ~40% more users able to access https pages hosted by hosting providers than are available today. -- Nelson B _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
