4 ms·

Why would they need a dedicated ip? Wouldn't they just need SNI?

• sp332 12y ago
  WinXP marketshare is still around 25%. And the default browser on XP doesn't support SNI.
  • dm2 12y ago
    I'm guessing the default browser is IE7 (maybe even IE6?) for Windows XP. The stats that matter are what browser they are using, which is less than 1% for IE7, and possibly near zero depending on your target market. Edit: I see, it's a Windows XP issue rather than an IE issue. http://serverfault.com/questions/389806/redirect-to-ssl-only-if-browser-supports-sni http://serverfault.com/questions/389806/redirect-to-ssl-only...
    • Someone1234 12y ago
      That doesn't matter at all. XP doesn't support SNI, therefore every application which uses XP's SSPI libraries doesn't either. So IE6-8 and Safari on XP all don't support SNI. Chrome on XP does support SNI but that is because they don't use XP's SSPI library for SSL connections (they use Mozilla's library NSS).
    • btgeekboy 12y ago
      IE on XP does not support SNI, regardless of version (6, 7 or 8).
  • richbradshaw 12y ago
    On a mixture of around 100 consumer facing UK sites (think small local businesses) that I have access to, Windows XP made up 3% of sessions in the last month, that's out of over 100k sessions according to Analytics.