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If You Can Read This, You're SNIing

2014129 points57 comments Networking & Internet details

When TLS was defined, it didn’t allow more than one hostname to be available on a single IP address / port pair, leading to “virtual hosting” issues; each Web site (for example) now requires a dedicated IP address.