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schoen on June 12, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS by d...

Nope, it's a wildcard cert -- if you view the cert contents you see that the subject includes

CN = *.wikipedia.org

_joe on June 12, 2015 [–]

Actually, it's a bit more complicated than that. We don't just serve .wikipedia.org from our frontends, but also e.g. .wikisource.org etc.

So yes, we are using SNI but for wildcart certs :)

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