Re: Installing multiple SSL certificates....

From: mizer (mizer_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/24/05 

Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:51:03 -0700

Is there a better way to provide SSL encryption to me clients for their web
sites and still be able to use host header names?

Server certificates vs client certificates?

Thanks,
Mizer

"Alun Jones [MSFT]" wrote:

> Note that this is not really "IIS does not support SSL with host headers",
> it's more "HTTPS is designed in such a way that SSL and host headers are
> incompatible". This behaviour is the same on all web servers that do HTTPS
> over SSL.
>
> Alun.
> ~~~~
> --
> Software Design Engineer, Internet Information Server (FTP)
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
> "Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:O3qwU94RFHA.688@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > See the link below. IIS does NOT support SSL with host headers. You would
> > need to use different IP addresses for each website and update your dns
> > zone records to reflect the change in which there will need to be a host
> > record for each website mapped to the IP for it. --- Steve
> >
> >
> > http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/21205/21205.html
> >
> > "mizer" <mizer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:FF9BA05F-4E16-4222-AD7A-9F0B4DF03553@microsoft.com...
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am currently hosting several web sites on a Win 2k3 server with IIS
> >> 6.0. I
> >> have a dynamic IP address and use host header names for identifying web
> >> sites.
> >>
> >> I have aneed to install SSL certificates for different web sites I am
> >> hosting. What do I need to accomplish this?
> >>
> >> Between information I have read and researched on the Interent, I am
> >> either
> >> confused or getting conflicting information.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Thanks for your time,
> >> Mizer
> >
> >
>
>
>

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