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Aside of the lacking availability of stable servers, another issue is that SPDY runs over SSL exclusively. That means that due to XP's lack of support of SNI, it's still not possible to do name-based virtual hosting.

Wasting an ip address for smaller sites is not always opportune or even possible, especially as we are running out of IP addresses.




> That means that due to XP's lack of support of SNI, it's still not possible to do name-based virtual hosting.

I thought Chrome supported SNI on XP, so since it is the only browser with SPDY, there are no problems.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication says that Chrome on XP supports SNI since Chrome 6.


I wish browsers could use SRV records in dns so we didn't have to run everything on 80/443. Stupid magic numbers.




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