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["Alejandro J. Cura" <alejandro.cura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Martin Albisetti
<martin.albisetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Sidnei da Silva
> <sidnei.da.silva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> As we work on the package upload/download server, I came to the question on
>> wether we should require SNI [1] support from the clients, such that we are
>> not restricted to one certificate per public IP (you know, IPv4 is a scarce
>> resource).
>>
>> Browser support is fairly widespread by now [2], but Python for example only
>> supports SNI with Python 3.2 onwards.
>
>
> I think this is very much a Roberto or Alecu question, and I suspect
> they're not using python for the downloading, but rather Vala or C++.

We are using QtNetwork from c++ and libsoup from Vala.

Qt supports SNI as of 4.8, and libsoup uses gnutls which afaict seems
to support that too.

cheers,
-- 
alecu