Koen.

Using Nginx as SSL Proxy for Name Based VirtualHosts in Apache

At the company where I work we develop all kinds of Facebook applications. And for them to properly work on Facebook, they need to be available over HTTPS.

And because registering and installing a new certificate for each and every new app we create is a real pain in the ass, we registered a wildcard certificate and are hosting all the apps on subdomains.

That worked well, but we still had to request a new IP address for every app, because the lack of SNI in all versions of Internet Explorer on Windows XP.