OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy

[Ryan Coleman]

On Oct 5, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> Nowadays there is also the possibility of RFC2817 -- in essence you
> start an ordinary HTTP session, then issue a STARTTLS command and
> upgrade the connection to encrypted.  This will allow name-based virtual
> hosting with TLS to work as intended.  Unfortunately, last I checked,
> while apache supports this, most web browsers do not.

Throwing just my two bits in: Apache supports it, as does Firefox, and nothing else (maybe Safari does...).

IE definitely does not. I looked into this before opting to go multiple static IPs at home for my webservers.