redirects before ssl on an ssl virtual server

I am also very interested in this. Let me know if you figure it out.

 

 

We have clients hit our main site https://www.xyz.com by several names but marketing folks do not expect them to type in https (nor do they put it in the ads). I simply point external DNS to a "redirector" address. Much like your http://xyz.com, it redirects any incoming host requests to https://www.xyz.com. From there the server reads the original url (somehow) and redirects to a virtual url under the https host. (eg. if the other domain is www.abc.com, the DNS for www.abc.com points to my redirector VIP and that redirects to https://www.xyz.com. The server replies as https://www.xyz.com/abc).

 

 

This doesn't cover if someone types in https://xyz.com or https://www.abc.com.

 

 

I guess this work-around would kind of cheat the whole certificate buying process as you could have multiple domains with a single cert but it's got to be possible to redirect before the SSL handshake.