Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

Fri Apr 24 11:02:19 UTC 2009

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:57:31AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:24:38PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:40:30 -0400, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:

>>> SSL and FTP are techincal justifications for an IP per site.

>> No they aren't.  SSL will work just fine as a name-based virtual
>> host with any modern webserver / browser. (Server Name Indication
>> (SNI) [RFC3546, sec 3.1])

> "I encourage my competitors to do this."  You only have to get one
> noisy curmudgeon who can't get to your customer's SSL website
> because IE 5.0 has worked fine for them for years to make it a
> completely losing strategy to try deploying this everywhere.  Since
> you can't predict in advance which sites are going to be accessed by
> said noisy curmudgeon, you don't bother deploying it anywhere, to be
> on the safe side.

The switch to "HTTP requests include a hostname" had the same problem,
but still did occur; it may take a few years, but doable. Probably too
late to save IPv4 addresses; though. By then (I really, really, hope)
IPv6 will be mainstream.

-- 
Lionel