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Re:Embracing HTTPS by freerk on Friday November 14, 2014 @02:26AM (#8606174)
SNI is not supported by the schannel implementation of win XP, it is not an IE6 thing, IE8 on win XP doesn't know SNI either :(
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Re:Embracing HTTPS by tedunangst on Friday November 14, 2014 @09:51AM (#8607348)
It's also not supported by python urllib or feedparser (at least not by default), meaning any attempt to connect to a service that requires SNI (cloudfront is one) fails during handshake.

This is doubly annoying for checking blogs that require https and redirect http. I have no way to check their RSS feeds.

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Re:Embracing HTTPS by Animats on Friday November 14, 2014 @11:20PM (#8610806)
Read this Python bug report for the painful story of SNI support in Python, 2009 through 2014.

http://bugs.python.org/issue5639

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Re:Embracing HTTPS by tedunangst on Saturday November 15, 2014 @05:48PM (#8612863)
Sigh.
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Re:Embracing HTTPS by bad_user on Friday November 14, 2014 @03:40AM (#8606326)
Firefox and Chrome on the other hand don't have a problem on Windows XP.
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Re:Embracing HTTPS by sporkmonger on Friday November 14, 2014 @05:53AM (#8606576)
Also the non-Chrome version of Android Gingerbread's browser lacks SNI support.
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Re:Embracing HTTPS by Animats on Friday November 14, 2014 @02:29AM (#8606182)
Right; you have to get to at least Windows Vista to get SNI.
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Re:Embracing HTTPS by dspillett on Friday November 14, 2014 @05:05AM (#8606470)
You have to have at least Vista to get SNI in IE. IIRC both Firefox and Chrome support SNI on XP.
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