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How to Troubleshoot SNI

SNI, Servername Indication, allows you to re-use a single IP address for many SSL certificates. The following article will highlight steps that I use to debug issues with SNI. Review of SNI SNI is ...
Published May 25, 2020
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MichaelOLeary
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Apr 28, 2023

I love it when I find DevCentral articles are still handy years after they are written. I also love your analogy about cURL and high school friends.

 

Anyway, Im actually trying to find a way to simulate a non-SNI enabled client and came across this article. In my case I think I'll use openssl with -noservername to simulate older TLS clients. Any other ideas folks, let me know!