Re: [TLS] Connection diversion to other subdomains

Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> Sun, 07 November 2010 06:34 UTC

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On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 23:42 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> If the server gets a TLS connection with a bad server_name extension, it
> would be even better to go ahead and fail the handshake with an
> "unrecognized_name" error.  Apache mod_ssl currently is not capable of
> doing this; I might enter an enhancement request.

For anyone interested:

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50227

-- 
Matt