Configuring SSL Host Headers

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Sam Gentile The World Accoeding to MSCOREE — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:05:38 GMT

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jonflanders — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:10:05 GMT

Hi Nick - I actually have been meaning to ask you about this - but since you brought it up in your blog - what about this problem - http://www.masteringbiztalk.com/blogs/jon/PermaLink,guid,a960d739-2293-41a8-b5e5-a736bb773815.aspx

You say "The user interface for setting host headers is relatively straightforward when the web site is hosted over HTTP" but the general way of configuring host headers (having one website with multiple host names configured) doesn't seem to work well with WCF. Is this intentional? If so why?

Thanks

Jon

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Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:12:19 GMT

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Nicholas Allen — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:23:13 GMT

Hi Jon,

This was intentional at the time as a way to simplify the integration between IIS and WCF. The two platforms are oriented around concepts that seem similar but turn out to clash quite a bit in practice - a web service vs. a web site. Rather than requiring you to manage the relationships between sites and services, WCF/IIS integration established a fixed relationship. I think there is some opportunity for making the relationship better in the future, particularly for domain specific cases like REST services. However, I still think that defining manual relationships in the general case isn't worth the complexity.

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jonflanders — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:56:04 GMT

Thanks Nick, just looking for confirmation that the way things work are actually intended behavior. I think in either case (REST or SOAP) especially with ASP.NET AJAX having multiple host names could be pretty common. On one project I went back to asmx because of this issue, until I discovered (it was Matt Milner's suggestion) to do the multiple web site mapped to the same physical path.

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Sam Gentile's Blog — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:30:55 GMT

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