[162576] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv6 and HTTPS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Hubbard)
Thu Apr 25 22:12:06 2013
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:11:35 -0400
From: David Hubbard <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
From: Jay Ashworth [mailto:jra@baylink.com]=20
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 9:47 PM
> To: NANOG
> Subject: Re: IPv6 and HTTPS
>=20
>=20
> When you say "it is mostly deployed", what exactly do you=20
> mean? Is it=20
> 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=20
> are you just=20
> talking about the server-side of the equation?
>=20
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
