Does Calibre Companion support SNI (Server Name Indication)?

diito · 12-14-2015, 02:38 PM

Does Calibre Companion currently support SNI? If you are not familiar SNI (Server Name Indication) it is an extension the TLS protocol that allows you to do name based virtual hosting of HTTPS sites using a single IP. Without it you are only able to do this by hosting one HTTPS site per IP address, which is not possible if you can't easily obtain IP extra IP address such as a home internet connection. It requires client side support however. All the major browsers have supported it for several years. Most Android apps seem to support it as well. However, when I tested a few years ago Calibre Companion did not. I was wondering is this cahnged and if not when support was planned as SNI is becoming much more common.

chaley · 12-14-2015, 02:54 PM

Nope, it isn't supported, and nope, I have no plans to support it.

Many (most?) people solve this using something like Apache rewrite rules.

diito · 12-14-2015, 03:42 PM

Yuck, that's super ugly. This there an reason why you have no plans for this, especially since it's natively supported in Android since 4.2 and the other Calibre clients all seem to support it?

chaley · 12-14-2015, 03:53 PM

Because CC supports Android back to 2.3. Because CC doesn't use the native Android HTTP stack, instead using a port of Apache 4.2.1. And because it would cost me many hours of development and test work and more hours of support work for a very small number of people who pay for CC and who would use it (probably >= 0 and <= 10).

12-14-2015, 02:38 PM	#1
diito Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2015 Device: none	Does Calibre Companion support SNI (Server Name Indication)? Does Calibre Companion currently support SNI? If you are not familiar SNI (Server Name Indication) it is an extension the TLS protocol that allows you to do name based virtual hosting of HTTPS sites using a single IP. Without it you are only able to do this by hosting one HTTPS site per IP address, which is not possible if you can't easily obtain IP extra IP address such as a home internet connection. It requires client side support however. All the major browsers have supported it for several years. Most Android apps seem to support it as well. However, when I tested a few years ago Calibre Companion did not. I was wondering is this cahnged and if not when support was planned as SNI is becoming much more common.

12-14-2015, 03:53 PM	#4
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,401 Karma: 8012652 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	Because CC supports Android back to 2.3. Because CC doesn't use the native Android HTTP stack, instead using a port of Apache 4.2.1. And because it would cost me many hours of development and test work and more hours of support work for a very small number of people who pay for CC and who would use it (probably >= 0 and <= 10). Last edited by chaley; 12-15-2015 at 06:58 AM. Reason: grammar and clarity

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12-14-2015, 02:54 PM	#2
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,401 Karma: 8012652 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	Nope, it isn't supported, and nope, I have no plans to support it. Many (most?) people solve this using something like Apache rewrite rules.

12-14-2015, 03:42 PM	#3
diito Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2015 Device: none	Yuck, that's super ugly. This there an reason why you have no plans for this, especially since it's natively supported in Android since 4.2 and the other Calibre clients all seem to support it?

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