Re: [fw-wiz] Why are developers choosing to...

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:52:40 -0500
"Adrian Grigorof" <adi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> One reason on IIS is that you can only have one TCP/443, SSL secured
> website per IP address. Many hosting companies are using "host
> headers" to host several websites with the same IP address.

That is the way SSL works, and is not limited to IIS web servers. You
have to define virtual addresses for any server that hosts several
virtual sites. You need to do this with any reverse proxies as well.

--g

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Greg Spath <gkspath@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Infrastructure Security Analyst
Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
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