Lightboard Lessons: TLS Server Name Indication

Server Name Indication (SNI) is an extension to the TLS protocol that allows the client to include the requested hostname in the first message of the SSL handshake (Client Hello).  Prior to the intro...
Published Dec 21, 2016
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Dec 22, 2016

Great John ! You presented few month ago HTTP 2 protocol and it seems it require TLS SNI ext , HTTP/2 clients MUST indicate the target domain name when negotiating TLS, have an idea why this is mandatory ? Many Thks again John