http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2005/12/02/apache-2-2-is-out en-us 40 My God, It's Full of Source! <p>The earth-shattering feature of Apache 2.2 is RFC 2817 <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslengine">SSL Upgrade</a>. Basically, any HTTP connection can upgrade itself to HTTPS without reestablishing.</p> <p>This means you can do SSL on virtual hosts without a dedicated IP address. This will greatly increase the penetration of SSL (plus free certs like CaCert) and encryption in general. The $5/mo webhosters will be able to offer SSL to clients. Ubiquitous encryption considered good.</p> <p>This is, of course, a Catch-22 - there are no browsers with the capability yet (let’s get Mozilla going…) but this is the necessary first step. Come back in a couple years and see how things are going.</p> <p>Oh, and I’m happy about the Cookie proxying patches which I reported against 2.0 but were applied to 2.1. This is the only Apache feature I’ve ever had a hand in designing so I’m happy to see it available. Basically, anything you do with cookies (paths, domains) should be properly proxied now. I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. Yay! </p> Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:35:00 -0500 urn:uuid:ddd6db32119d15c45b6ff8ebd97b2514 bill_mcgonigle http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2005/12/02/apache-2-2-is-out Linux http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/trackback/46