IPv6 and HTTPS

David Hubbard dhubbard at dino.hostasaurus.com
Fri Apr 26 02:11:35 UTC 2013


From: Jay Ashworth [mailto:jra at baylink.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 9:47 PM
> To: NANOG
> Subject: Re: IPv6 and HTTPS
> 
> 
> When you say "it is mostly deployed", what exactly do you 
> mean?  Is it 
> layer 7 or 4?  Does it live in libraries that can be upgraded behind
> users' backs?  Or is it actually in the browser proper?  Or 
> are you just 
> talking about the server-side of the equation?
> 

I'm guessing the browser may depend on some OS goodies based
on the fact that supposedly MS has said XP will never support
SNI.

The web server has to support it too, which means compiling
apache with SNI support and there are of course plenty of
hosts running old apache.

David




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