Subject: [ietf-tls] Re: London

From: Eric Rescorla <[email-masked]>
Date: 12 Jul 2001 22:40:39 -0700

"Joseph Hui" <[email-masked]> writes:

> It's reasonable to assume the context of dns_name discussion
> to be always name-based virtual hosting.  So the compatibility
> issue raised was specific for such practice.  
Well, that wasn't the compatibility issue that David was
raising. There's a serious concern that if clients use this
extension it will break servers who don't know about it.
Such servers are broken but that's not much comfort to
anyone concerned.

-Ekr

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